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 TEESDALE GLOSSARY.
 
 PRINTED BY C. AND J. ADLARD, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSB.
 
 GLOSSARY 
 
 OF 
 
 PROVINCIAL WORDS 
 
 USED IN 
 
 TEESDALE 
 
 IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM. 
 
 " Sib, — Ray has made a collection of North-country words. By collecting 
 tliose of your country, you will do a useful thing towards the history of the 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 J. R. SMITH, 4, OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO ; 
 GEORGE BELL, FLEET STREET. 
 
 BARNARD CASTLE: JOHN ATKINSON. 
 RICHMOND: MATTHEW BELL; T. AND A. BOWMAN. 
 
 MDCCrXLiy,. 
 
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 " Dialects reflect the general language tliversified by localities. A dialect is a 
 ^ ariation in the pronunciation, and necessarily in the orthography, of Mords, or a 
 pecuharity of phrase or idiom, usually accompanied by a tone which seems to be as 
 local as tiie word it utters. It is a language rarely understood out of the sphere of 
 the population by whom it is appropriated. A language is fixed iu a nation by a 
 floiu-ishiug metropolis of an extensive emi)ii-e; a dialect may have existed coeval with 
 that predominant dialect which by accident has become the standard or general lan- 
 guage ; and, moreover, the contemned dialect may occasionally preserve some 
 remains or fragments of the language, which, apparently lost, but hence recovered, 
 enable us rightly to understand even the prevalent idiom. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 "It is among oiu- ])rovincial dialects tliat we discover many beautiful archaisms, 
 scattered I'cmnants of our language, which explain those obscurities of our more 
 ancient writers, singularities of phrase, or lingual pecidiarities, which have so often 
 liewildered the most acute of our commentators. . . .These provincial modes of speech 
 have often actually preserved for us the origin of English phraseology, and enlightened 
 the philologist in a path uncxploj'ed. 
 
 * * *   
 
 "A language, in the progi'ess of its refinement, loses as well as gains in the amount 
 of words, and tlie good fortune of expressive phrases. Some become equivocal by 
 changing their signification, and some fall obsolete, one cannot tell why, for custom 
 or caprice arbitrate, guided by no !a«', and often with an unmusical ear. These dis- 
 carded but faithful servants, now treated as outcasts, and not even suspected to have 
 any habitation, are safely lodged in some of oiu- dialects. As the people are faithful 
 traditionists, repeating the w'ords of their forefathers, and are the longest to preserve 
 their customs, they are the most certain antiquaries ; and their oral knowledge and 
 their ancient observances often elucidate many an archaeological obscurity. 
 *• * * * 
 
 '• Words arc not barbarous nor obsolete because no longer used in our wTitten 
 nmiposition, since some of the most exquisite and picturesque, wliich have ceased to 
 cnncli oui' writings, hve in immortal pages." — Uiseaeli {Amenities of Litfraiure). 
 
 " I am only anxious to repeat, that we never know how wide a field for speculation 
 and reflection may be opened by the recovery and preservation of a single obscure 
 prorincialism ; and that in contributing to such an object, w-e may be preparing the 
 materials for observations on language, far more important than I have in this instance 
 been able to submit to the reader." — Sie E. W. IIeau, Bart. {Classical Museum, 
 No. IV, p. 63). 
 
 ' .' . ." 

 
 cP 
 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 The following Glossary is intended to contain a collection 
 
 of the Provincial Words and Phrases used in a portion of 
 
 the county of Durham which extends from Middleton in 
 
 ^ Teesdale to Darlington. The district selected may be 
 
 ^ considered as bounded on the east by the river Skern, 
 
 ^^tK oil the west by the Hudshope Burn, on the north by a 
 
 line parallel to the course of the river Tees, and distant 
 
 from it about nine or ten miles, and on the south by the 
 
 i , river Tees,* for about thirty miles in its course. 
 
 * " The Muse this largest shire of England having sung, 
 Yet seeing more than this did to her task belong, 
 ^ Looks still into the North, the bishopric and views, 
 
 S Which with an eager eye, whilst wistly she pursues, 
 
 < Teis as a bordering flood (who thought herself divine), 
 
 j' Confining in her course that county Palatine, 
 
 And York, the greatest shire, doth instantly begin 
 To rouse herself: quoth she, " Doth every rillet win 
 Applause for their small worths, and I, that am a queen. 
 With those poor brooks compar'd ? Shall I alone be seen 
 Thus silently to pass, and not be heard to sing ? 
 When as two countries are contending for my spring : 
 For Cumberland, to which the Cumri gave the name. 
 Accounts it to be hers, Northumberland the same, 
 Will need'sly hers should be, for that my spring doth rise. 
 So equally 'twixt both, that he were very wise, 

 
 VI PREFACE. 
 
 In the establishment of the Saxon octarchy, the county 
 of Durham was probably included in the kingdom of Deira, 
 the southernmost of the two which are frequently compre- 
 
 Could tell which of these two me for her own may claim. 
 
 But as in all these tracts, there's scarce a flood of fame, 
 
 But she some valley hath, which her brave name doth bear; 
 
 My Teisdale nam'd of me, so likewise have 1 here. 
 
 At my first setting forth, through which I nimbly slide ; 
 
 Then Yorkshire which doth lie upon my setting side. 
 
 Me Lune and Bauder lends, as in the song before 
 
 Th' industrious Muse hath show'd : my Dunelmenian shore, 
 
 Sends Huyd to help my course, with some few other becks, 
 
 Which time (as it should seem) so utterly neglects, 
 
 That they are nameless yet ; then do I bid adieu 
 
 To Bernard's battled towers, and seriously pursue 
 
 My course to Neptune's court, but as forthright I run, 
 
 The Skern, a dainty nymph, saluting Darlington, 
 
 Comes in to give me aid, and being proud and rank. 
 
 She chanc'd to look aside, and spieth near her bank, 
 
 Three black and horrid pits, which for their boiling heat, 
 
 (That from their loathsome brims do breath a sulpherous sweat) 
 
 Hell kettles rightly call'd, that with the very sight. 
 
 This water-nymph, my Skern, is put in such a fright, 
 
 That with unusual speed she on her course doth haste. 
 
 And rashly runs herself into my widen'd waist, 
 
 In pomp I thus approach gi-eat Amphitrite's state." 
 
 Drayton's Polyolbion. 29th Song. 
 
 For the early history of Teesdale, reference may be made to the 
 County Histories by Hutchinson and Surtees : for a description of the 
 scenery, to 
 
 Hutchinson's Excursion to the Lakes, p. 325 to the end. 
 
 Arthur Young's Tour in the North of England, vol. ii, p. 1/9, Notes. 
 
 Tour in Teesdale, 2d Edit. (York, 1813) ; last Edit. 1848. 
 
 Walbran's Antiquities of Gainford. 
 
 Letter from J. B. S. Morritt, Esq., to Sir W. Scott. See Life of 
 Scott, vol. iii, p. 372 (Edit. 1839). 
 
 Scott's Rokeby, canto ii, st. 2, Note : Appendix, Note A. 
 
 Teisa, a Poem, by Anne Wilson (Newcastle, 1778).
 
 PREFACE. TU 
 
 hended under the general name of Northumberland. His- 
 torians, however, are not well agreed as to the exact limits 
 of Deira* and Bernicia. 
 
 Hitherto there has been no Glossary of words peculiar 
 to the county of Durham, or any part of it. The manu- 
 script Glossaryf of Kennett, in the British Museum, and 
 the Glossaries of Ray, Grose, and Brockett, doubtless 
 comprise this county. 
 
 I must not omit to mention a manuscript ' Collection of 
 Words used in the Bishoprick of Durham and some adja- 
 cent Counties,' in the handwriting of Gray, the poet, which 
 was recently purchased by Peter Cunningham, Esq. It 
 contains 195 words, and was probably furnished to the 
 poet by his fiiend Dr. Warton. 
 
 Ritson also appears to have made a collection of such 
 words. In a letter to his relative, Joseph Frank, Esq., 
 he says : " You must either make use of my collection of 
 Durham words or send me yours. Parson Boucher, vicar 
 of Epsom (who is preparing a glossary of ancient and 
 
 * " The British kingdoms of Deyfir and Bryneich (Latinized into 
 Deira and Byrnicia) were divided from each other by a forest, occu- 
 pying the tract between the Tyne and Tees. This border-land, now 
 the Bishopric of Durham, does not seem originally to have belonged 
 to either kingdom ; but in subsequent times the boundary between 
 Deira and Bernicia was usually fixed at the Tyne." — Palgrave's History 
 of the Anglo-Saxons. 
 
 " Durham was a portion of the Province of Bernicia, which, together 
 with Deira, formed the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumberland, 
 the most cultivated because the most learned of the states into which 
 Saxon England was divided." — See Preface to Anglo-Saxon Ritual of 
 Durham. See also BoswortWs Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, p. xvi, 
 
 t Lansdown Collection, 1033, 79 f.
 
 VUl PREFACE. 
 
 local words, which he tells me is in great forwardness), 
 anxiously desires to peruse the Durham words."* 
 
 The principal classes of words included in this Glossary 
 maybe thus defined ; (and here I am following and quoting 
 from the author of the ' Herefordshire Glossary :') 
 
 1. "Words used by classical writers, but now obso- 
 
 lete." 
 
 2. "Words not obsolete, but used only in poetry, or as 
 
 technical terms. 
 
 3. "Words which are not known to have ever been used 
 
 in the language of educated persons." 
 
 4. " Words substantially the same as words current in 
 
 the language of educated persons, but modified in 
 form. In some cases the provincial form is 
 more ancient than the literary form. In some 
 cases there is a variety of forms, without any in- 
 dication by which the greater or less antiquity of 
 either can be determined. In other cases the 
 provincial form is a corruption of the literary 
 form, arising from ignorance. "f 
 It will be readily assumed that many of the words com- 
 prised in this Glossary are current as provincialisms in 
 other parts of the county, also in that part of Yorkshire 
 which is separated by the Tees from the district here 
 selected, and in other parts of England. J 
 
 Many words are inserted herein which are found in the 
 
 * Ritson's Letters. 2 vols., 1833. Vol. ii, p. 248. 
 
 t See Herefordshire Glossary, p. vi ; also Forby's Vocabulary of 
 East Auglia. Introduction, p. 109; Latham on the English Language, 
 1st Ed. p. 77 ; Article on ' Dialect' in Penny Cyclopaedia. 
 
 I See Hunter's Hallamshire Glossai7, p. xxvi.
 
 PREFACE. IX 
 
 last edition of Johnson's Dictionary, and also in that of 
 Webster. Of these, some occur in our old writers, yet are 
 no longer standard words in composition; as "Trail," 
 which is found with its present signification in Milton, 
 Dryden, and Pope. 
 
 The words contained in this collection were all in use in 
 the present century, though some of them, indeed, have now 
 become obsolete, or nearly so; e.g. the word " chirm," 
 which Webster says is not in use. 
 
 In may be objected that I have inserted several words 
 which are not provincialisms at all, such as coping-stone, 
 crate, croft, cote, &c. My answer is, that such words are 
 not in general use, either written or spoken. There is no 
 reference to any modern writers, in either Johnson or 
 Webster, under any of the above-mentioned words, with 
 one exception. The word "crate" is used by Dr. Johnson 
 in the ' Journey to the Hebrides.' 
 
 I have introduced into this work some descriptions of local 
 customs, sports, and pastimes, which may tend to rescue 
 from oblivion these fast-perishing relics of a bygone period. 
 
 Some excuse may be expected for my attempting a Glos- 
 sary of a small district which is comprised in the much 
 larger extent of country to which Mr. Brockett's Glossary 
 refers. It appeared to me that by a careful investigation 
 of the dialect of a limited district, with which I was once 
 well acquainted, I should render a greater service towards 
 the illustration of our language than if I had taken a wider 
 
 range : 
 
 " Alius enira alio plura invenii-e potest, nemo omnia."* 
 
 * Ausonius.
 
 X PREFACE. 
 
 It is certainly by no means satisfactory to be told that 
 a particular word is used in "Yorkshire," or "the North." 
 There are hundreds of words in the 'Craven Glossary' 
 which are not found in Brockett's ' Glossary of North- 
 country Words,' In the ' Promptorium Parvulorum,' 
 vol. i, p. 221, note 4, it is stated, on the authority of 
 Kennett, "that in 'Yorkshire,' for Gee oo, the carters say 
 Hite and Ree." These last words are not, I believe, 
 known in that part of Yorkshire which borders on the 
 Tees, though I am not prepared to say that they are not 
 known in some part of that large county. 
 
 So, again, in the ' Promp. Par.,' vol. i, p. 238, n. I, we 
 read that " a hank of yarn is called in the ' North' a hesp 
 or has])." In no part of the North with which I am ac- 
 quainted is this the case. Turning to p. 240, n. 1, we 
 find it asserted, on Kennett's authority, that "Thatchers 
 in ' Yorkshire' are called Helliars." I have never heard the 
 term, and I am well acquainted with a great portion of 
 that county. At p. 288, n. 1, it is stated, on the au- 
 thority of Brockett, that " in the ' North,' cold and moist 
 weather, when it does not actually rain, is called lasche." 
 This, too, is a term which is altogether new to me. 
 
 It must be evident, however, that such general references 
 must, by their vagueness, necessarily lead to erroneous 
 conclusions, and cannot form a safe and correct guide for 
 philological or historical investigation. 
 
 In the limited district which I have selected, though a 
 general similarity of dialect prevails, yet to the west of 
 Eggleston the pronunciation differs considerably, and 
 terms are used which are not known in the lower part of
 
 PREFACE. XI 
 
 Teesdale. Thus, we find easen for east, wessen for west, 
 coad for cold, sMftiny for shifting, kirk for church, &c. 
 
 I have adopted such a spelling as will convey, as nearly 
 as may be, the true pronunciation, even to persons to whom 
 the words are not familiar. In the word fauf, and some 
 other words, I have, in this respect, ventured to differ from 
 Mr. Brockett.* 
 
 Although I have availed myself of the labours of others, 
 and more especially of the author of the ' Craven Dialect,' 
 yet I have inserted no word without carefully considering 
 whether it belonged to the district, nor have I given any 
 definition without being satisfied of its correctness. 
 
 Lastly, let me add, that on commencing this collection 
 I had not the least intention of ever publishing it. 
 
 * I have consulted the Second Edition of Mr. Brockett's Glossary, 
 but have made no references to it. The Third Edition I have never 
 seen. 
 
 London ; 
 August 1849.
 
 ABBREVIATIONS. 
 
 a Adjective. 
 
 adv Adverb. 
 
 Ak Akerman's Wiltshire Glossary, 1842. 
 
 A. S Anglo Saxon. 
 
 B. J. Ben Jonson 
 
 Bar Barnes's Dorset Glossary. 2d Edit., 1848. 
 
 Bon Boucher's Glossary. 2 parts, 1833. 
 
 Br. Pop. Ant.. . Brand's Popular Antiquities. 3 vols., 1841-2. 
 
 Bur Burns's Works. 8 vols., 1834. 
 
 Car Craven Glossary. 2d Edit., 1828. 
 
 Ch Chaucer. 
 
 con Conjunction. 
 
 Dan Danish. 
 
 DuT Dutch. 
 
 D.V. Douglas's Virgil. 
 
 For Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830. 
 
 Fr French. 
 
 Ger German. 
 
 Gl Glossary. 
 
 Gr Greek. 
 
 H. Hunter's Hallamshire Glossary, 1829. 
 
 Hart Hartshorne's Glossary in ' Salopia Antiqua.' 
 
 Her Herefordshire Glossary, 1839. 
 
 Ice Icelandic. 
 
 Ital Italian. 
 
 , } Jamieson's Dictionary (2d Edit., 1840), and Supple - 
 
 -"""^ ^ ment (1825). 
 
 Jen Jennings's Somersetshire Glossary, 1825. 
 
 John Johnson's Dictionaiy. 3 vols., 1827. 
 
 Lane Lancashire Dialect.
 
 XIV ABBREVIATIONS. 
 
 Lat Latin. 
 
 n Noun. 
 
 Nar Nares's Glossary. 
 
 Nor Norwegian. 
 
 pi Plural. 
 
 P. PL Piers Plowman. 
 
 p. n Proper Name. 
 
 p. pa Participle Past. 
 
 p. pr Participle Present. * 
 
 Per. Rel Percy's Reliques. 3 vols., 1844. 
 
 Pr. Pa Promptorium Parvulorum, 1843. 
 
 prep Preposition 
 
 pret Preterite or Past Tense. 
 
 proii Pronoun. 
 
 Sc Scotch. 
 
 Scott's P. If. . Scott's Poetical Works. 12 vols., 1833-4. 
 
 Shak Shakspeare. 
 
 Ske Skelton's Poetical Works. 2 vols., 1843. 
 
 Sp Spenser. 
 
 Struit Strutt's Sports and Pastimes. 4to, 1810. 
 
 Sw Swedish. 
 
 V Verb. 
 
 V. a Verb Active. 
 
 V. n Verb Neuter. 
 
 W. and C. . . . Westmoreland and Cumberland Glossary, 1839, 
 
 Web Webster's Dictionary. 2 vols., 1832. 
 
 Wel Welsh. 
 
 Wl Wicliffe. 
 
 Wilb Wilbraham's Cheshire Glossary. 2d Edit., 1836. 
 
 jyill MVillan'sWest Riding Words. Archaeologia, vol.xvii, 
 
 5 pp. 138-107.
 
 2 
 
 1, 
 
 5 
 
 4, 
 
 5 
 
 15, 
 
 6 
 
 4, 
 
 9 
 
 22, 
 
 14 
 
 27, 
 
 20 
 
 26, 
 
 22 
 
 9, 
 
 22 
 
 23, 
 
 ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 
 
 1, after " means," add "//er." 
 
 " IFeb." add " Used by B. Jonson. See vol. ii, 
 p. 319 ; also vol. iv, p. 400 (Ed. 1816, 9 vols.) 
 "C«r." add "Fo>-., H., Her." 
 " yard," add "Her." 
 " besom," add Her. 
 "Car." add "Her." 
 " Parv." add n. (2). 
 "H." add "Her." 
 " bird," add 
 
 " The sparrow chirmis in the wallis clyft, 
 Goldspink and lintquhite fordynnand the lift." 
 
 Douff. Virg. p. 403. 
 
 - "For." add " Her." 
 
 - " Cash," add a " : " 
 
 - "Car." aM" Her." 
 
 - "H." add "Her." 
 
 - " Wilb." add " /Fi7/." 
 
 - " vowel," add " Ice. frav." 
 51 after 7, add 
 
 GALANTY SHOW, n. A peep-show. 
 
 71 10 from bottom, orait " quoth:" before " Peter." 
 
 72 last line, add "Will." 
 
 80 21, read "a lin sark." 
 80 after 29, add 
 
 LIST, V. To enlist. 
 
 82 9, after " sheltered," add " Will." 
 
 85 6 from bottom, after " churn-supper," add 
 
 " See Preface to Sir E. B. Lvtton's Eugene Aram, New Ed. 1849; 
 also Lit. Gazette for June 2d, 1849, p. 413." 
 87 22, for " To-morrow," read " morrow." 
 89 6 from bottom, for " aiul," read " and." 
 
 116 1, after " public-house," insert— 
 
 " See Dodsley's Old Plays, i, 72 (Ed. 1825); 4 Ps, by Heywood; also 
 Steevens's Note to Shaks. Hen. IV, v,3 ;also Churchyard's" Wor- 
 thiness of Wales." 
 
 " The shot is great when each man pais his groate. 
 If all alike the reckoning runneth round." 
 
 24 
 
 19, 
 
 28 
 
 18, 
 
 44 
 
 13, 
 
 46 
 
 3, 
 
 46 
 
 4, 
 
 49 
 
 13,
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 A This letter is retained in the phraseology of Teesdale, 
 
 -^^' and other parts of the nortli of England, where 
 
 modern English substitutes o ; as aivn, own ; lanff, 
 
 long, &c. 
 
 A, B, C. These three letters are used to designate the entire 
 
 alphabet, when it is spoken of to children, 
 
 " Their Latin names as fast he rattles, 
 As A, B, C." 
 
 Burns' s Works, ii, p. 73. 
 
 They seem to be used by Shakspeare to mean the first 
 book : see King John, act i, sc. 1 ; also Two 
 Gentlemen of Verona, act ii, sc. I . 
 
 By the statutes of foundation of some of the grammar 
 schools in the 16th century, the master is required 
 to instruct the boys " in their A, B, C, and other 
 English books." It is clear, therefore, that the 
 A, B, C formerly meant a book, and indeed it is often 
 mentioned along with another book, the Primer. 
 See Judgment of Lord Eldon, in Attorney-General v. 
 Earl of jMansfield. — RiisselTs Reports, ii, ,501. 
 
 A book has been recently published in Germany, en- 
 titled 'A, B, C, fur kleine und grosse Kinder.' 
 ABACK, pj'ep. Behind ; as, stand aback o' me. 
 ABACK A BEHINT, adv. Behindhand, too late. 
 
 1
 
 2 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 ABLE, a. Possessed of large pecuniary means. ~*^-*-v< 
 ABOON, jirep. and adv. Above, beyond, or more than. 
 
 W. and C. 
 ABREED, adv. Spread out. A. S. ahredian. 
 ABUNE, prej). and adv. Above. 
 AC-RUN, n. Acorn. A. S. cecern. 
 ADDLE, V. To earn ; as to earn wages. A. S. cedlean, a 
 
 reward. Car. 
 ADDLINS, n. Earnings. Car., W. and C, Wilh. 
 ADGE, n. Adze. Car. 
 AFIELD, adv. To the field. 
 AFORE, prej). and adv. Before. Car. 
 AFORE-LANG, adv. Ere long. Car. 
 AGANE, prep. Against ; " agane [i. e. the time] he comes 
 
 hame." For. 
 AGE, V. To grow old, showing perceptibly the marks of 
 
 age. Car., For. 
 AGEE, a. Awry, crooked. Jam., Car., W. and C, Will. 
 AGREEABLE, a. Willing, compliant. Car., For., Wilb. 
 AIK, n. The oak. The vulgar pronunciation is more cor- 
 
 I'ectly given by JcA'. A. S. ac. Germ. e«VAe. DuT. eik. 
 AIRLY, a. Early. 
 AIRNEST, a. Earnest. 
 AIRT, n. The point from which the wind blows. Jam., 
 
 Car. 
 
 " Of a' tlie air/s the wind can blaw, 
 I dearly like the west." 
 
 Scot. Museum, iii, 244. Burns, iv, 137. 
 
 AIRT NOR PART. " Neither airt nor part," in no way 
 concerned with, or accessory to. See PercT/'sReliques, 
 vol. ii, p. 227. Jam. 
 
 AITHER, a. and pro. Either. 
 
 AKWARD, a. Awkward. When a sheep is on its back, 
 and not able to rise, it is said to be "laid ahward."
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY, 6 
 
 A'L, I will. W. and C, 
 
 ALANE, a. Alone. Dut, alleen. Car., W. and C. 
 
 ALANG, adv. Along. W. and C. 
 
 ALIBL ASTER, n. Alabaster. Car., W. and C. 
 
 ALL-ALONG-OF, 2^rep., Entirely owing to. Car., H. 
 
 ALLEY, n. A marble made of alabaster or stone. For. 
 
 ALLEY, n. At the end of tlie game of football, shinny, 
 &c., the ball must pass a certain line or mark, which 
 is called the alley. 
 
 ALL IVn* EYE AND BETTY MARTIN, A familiar ex- 
 pression used to show that, as regards some particular 
 transaction, there has been some deceit, imposition, 
 or pretence. It is thought to have had its origin in 
 the beginning of the old Romish hymn — 
 
 " ! mihi, beate Martine !" 
 
 ALL-O'-BITS, All in pieces, broken. Car. 
 
 AMAIST, adv. Almost. A. S. ealmaest. Jam. 
 
 AMANG, prep. Among. A. S. amang. W. and C. 
 
 ANANTERS, jjrep. In the event of. Car. 
 
 ANE, a. One. Jam. The common pronunciation is best 
 
 conveyed by i/an. 
 AN-END, adv. Onwards. For. 
 ANENST, 2»'ep- Opposite to. Used by Chaucer and Be7i 
 
 Jonson. W. and C. Wilb. 
 ANEW, a., pi. of enough. Jam. 
 ANGRY, a. Inflamed, as used in reference to a wound or 
 
 sore. For. 
 ANPARSY, Meaning the character ^ {and per se). 
 
 This character ^' is of Latin origin properly, being a 
 combination of e and t. See Car. ; also For. under 
 A mpessund and Anpasty. His derivation and past y 
 is most improbable. 
 ANTICS, n. Odd gesticulations, tricks. 
 APIECE, adv. Individually ; as, a shilling apiece.
 
 4 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 APRIL-FOOL-DAY, The first of April, on which day it is 
 customary to practise some harmless deception, 
 and thereby make " April fools." See Hone's 
 E. D. B., i, p. 409 ; Brand's Po]). Ant. i, p. 76. John. 
 
 AP-RON, 71, Apron, pronounced as if spelt ap-ron. ^eeWeb. 
 
 ARFISH, a. Afraid. 
 
 ARRAN-WEB, n. Spider's web.. Lat. aranea. Car. 
 
 ARRANTEST, a. Veriest. '' ''<-■' ^ 9 ^' ^^^^ 
 
 ASK, n. A newt, or small lizard. Jam. 
 
 ASS, V. To ask. /am., Car. ^ 
 
 ASS, n. Ashes. Car. A. S. asce. Germ, asche. Some- 
 times used in the plural form. 
 
 ASSEER, V. Assure. 
 
 ASSLE'TREE, n. An axle-tree. Lat. axis. Fr. asseul. 
 „ Ital. assile. Jam., Car. 
 
 ASSLE-TOOTH, H, A grinder: dens molaris. Car. 
 
 ASS-MIDDEN, n. The heap into which ashes are collected. 
 Car. 
 
 AST, 2J- P- Asked. Car. 
 
 ASTITE, ff(^y. As soon as, in preference. .4«-^/(7e, whence 
 Whitsun-^<(/e A. S. tid. Car. 
 
 ASWIN, adv. Obliquely. Welsh, asswyn. Car.^ r^v. ' 
 
 A-TOP, adv. Upon. ^«*^' 
 
 ATWEAH, adv. " Brak't atweah," broke it into two. 
 
 AUD, a. Old. A. S. eald. Car., W. and C. 
 
 AUD-FARRANT, a. Applied to children that are peculiarly 
 grave, old-fashioned, or formal. Sometimes, but less 
 frequently applied to those who show ability and 
 sagacity beyond their years. See Aud-farran, in Jam., 
 Wil. 
 
 AUD-PEG, n. Old-milk cheese. 
 
 AUM, n. An elm-tree. Car. 
 
 AUP, n. A mischievous child. Car. 
 
 AW, pro. The vulgar pronunciation of I ; as, aw's, I am, 
 aw's gang, I shall go.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. i> 
 
 AWAY WITH, For tlie most part used negatively; I 
 cannot away with, i. e. I cannot endure. 
 This phrase was in use in the time of Queen Elizabeth. 
 See Web. I find it used in the Quarterly Review, 
 vol. 74, p. 391. 
 
 AWE, V. To owe. 
 
 AWE, V. To own, possess ; as, wheaKs aive this hat ? who 
 owns this hat? See Shaksj). Othello, act iii, sc. 3. 
 
 AWLS, n. To imck up his awls, is spoken of a person de- 
 parting in haste. 
 
 AWN, V. To own. A. S, agan. 
 
 AWN, 71. Own. Car., W. and C. 
 
 AWNER, n. Owner. W. and C. 
 
 AX, V. To ask. A. S. axian. Casaubon derives this word 
 from aliod), postulo. Car. 
 
 AX'D AT CHURCH, A phrase applied to the publication 
 of marriage-banns. Jam., Car. 
 
 AX'D OUT, Refers to the third and last publication of 
 banns. 
 
 T)ABBY, n. A young child. It is used also for a doll ; 
 
 -■-^ and in the plural to denote prints, when shown to 
 children for their amusement. Car. 
 
 BABBY-CLOUTS, n. Rags of different colours given to 
 children to dress their dolls with. 
 
 BABBY-HOUSE, n. A circle, square, or other figure, made 
 on the ground by children with pieces of china, 
 earthenware, or stones. 
 
 BABBY-LAKINS, n. Chilch-en's toys. 
 
 BACK-BAND, n. A strong iron chain of twisted links, 
 which passes over the cart-saddle in a groove, and, 
 being attached to the shafts, supports the cart. Car. 
 
 BACHELOR' S BUTTONS, n. The familiar name of a well- 
 known flower.
 
 6 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 
 
 BACK-END, 71. The autumn. Car., W. and C. 
 BACKERLY, a. Late ; as, a backerly hay-time. 
 BACK-SIDE, n. The ground at the back of a house, a 
 court, or yard. ^W. and C. yr*^^' 
 ^ BACKUS, s. A bakehouse. "A. S. hcechiis. 
 BADE {B'yad), v. Did abide. 
 BADGER, n. Dealer in corn, /f., Wilh. 
 BADLY, adv. UnwelL For. 
 BAGNET, n. Bayonet. 
 BAILIER, n. A baiUflf. 
 BAIN, a. Near, ready ; as hainer way, a nearer way. 
 
 Jamieson derives this word from the Islandic beina, 
 expedire. See Car. under Bane. For., Wil., Wilb. 
 BAIRN, ?z. A child, male or female, k.^.bearn. Shaks. 
 Winter's Tale, act iii, sc. 1, and All's Well that Ends 
 Well, act i, sc. 3. Jam., W. and C. 
 BAIRNS-PLAY, n. Any kind of trifling. 
 BAIST, V. To beat. Isl. beijsta. Ah., IT. 
 BAITH, a. Both. Car., W. and C, Wilb. 
 A BAKE {Bhjal), V. To bake. 
 
 BALDERDASH, n. Trifling language. See Jam., John., 
 
 Car. 
 BALKE, n. A cross-beam. 
 
 " Many a piece of bacon have I had out of their lalkes." 
 
 Gammer Gurton's Needle, 0. P. ii. 7. 
 
 Baike, Ske. A. S. bale. W. and C. 
 
 BALKE, n. A space in ploughed land left unploughed for 
 some reason, as the intervention of a large stone. The 
 word also denotes the grass line between two con- 
 tiguous swaths in mowing. A. S. bale. See Jam. 
 bauk. 
 
 BALL, V. Applied to the adhesion of snow to the shoe-sole. 
 
 BAND, V. Did bind. Car. 
 
 BANE, n. Bone. Jatn., Car. 
 
 fi...
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. / 
 
 BANE-FIRE, n. Bonfire ; applied usually to the fires 
 kindled to celebrate the 5th of November. 
 Dr. Willan remarks that Bone-fire is a corruption 
 made by the higher class of people, in order to 
 soften the harsh sound of ban-fire, as the word is 
 generally pronounced. See Johnson and Webster. 
 Jam. under Bayle-fre. Car. Also Boucher^ s Glos- 
 sary, under Barie-Jire. 
 BANG, V. To strike or beat, to surpass. 
 BANKEROUT, n. A bankrupt. Fr. banqiierout. Ital. 
 bancorotto. 
 
 This word I remember but once to have heard spoken ; 
 I believe it is now nearly obsolete. 
 BAR, V. To shut, to close ; as " bar that door." 
 BARK, V. To cough. 
 BARKENED, «. Applied to dirt clotted or hardened on 
 
 any surface. Car. under Barked. 
 BARNEY-CASSEL, p. n. The vulgar name of Barnard 
 Castle, the capital of Teesdale. 
 
 " High crowu'd he sits in dawning pale, 
 The sovereign of the lovely vale." 
 
 Scott's Rokehy, c. ii, st. 1. 
 
 BARRING-OUT, A custom in some of the smaller schools 
 in the north. At tlie eve of the holidays the school 
 door is closed on the master on his arrival ; a parley 
 ensues between the master and the senior boys ; and the 
 result is, that extra holiday is granted, with, probably, 
 exemption from the usual task. I do not recollect wit- 
 nessing this custom, but I perfectly well remember 
 another school custom, on the day of "breaking up" 
 for the holidays. A small subscription is entered 
 into, and a mixture made of ale, sweetened and 
 seasoned so as to lie agreeable to juvenile palates. 
 The song or glee is then introduced. Some now living
 
 8 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 may recollect such a festivity on one or two occasions, 
 at the school of a clergyman at Staindrop, about 
 thirty-five years ago. 
 
 A similar custom of barring-out seems to have pre- 
 vailed in Cumberland and Westmoreland. See 
 W. and C.Glossanj. Gent.'s May. vol. 61, p. 11 70. 
 See also Hone's Y. B. pp. 152, 1306. Brand's 
 Pop. Ant. i, p. 45. 
 
 BASS, n. Matting. Isl. bast. Jam., Car. 
 
 BAT, n. A blow. Car. 
 
 BAT,??. Extraordinary pace ; as, "he went at a terrible 
 bat,'' at a great rate. Car. It is also used meta- 
 phorically for living very extravagantly, he lived at 
 a great hat. It denotes also condition; as, "he is 
 reduced to a sad bat." 
 
 BATE, V. To reduce the price first asked for any article 
 on sale. Car. 
 
 BATE {B'yat), v.pref. of bite. 
 
 BATTEN, n. Batten o'streah, the straw of two sheaves 
 tied together. 
 
 BAWK, V. To disappoint ; used actively and passively. 
 
 BAWSAND-FACED, a. Bald-faced ; applied to horses and 
 cattle. See Jam. Gawiu Douglas, in his translation 
 of Virgil, renders front em alb am by bawsand-faced. 
 Wilh. under Baivson. 
 
 BEAL lu. To roar, as a child. A. S. bellan. Baile'mSk. 
 
 BELLER/ See Car. under Bell. W. and C. 
 
 BECK, n. A small rivulet. A. S. bece. Dut. beek. 
 See John., Web., Car., W, and C. 
 
 " From this bridge I ridde a mile on the stony and rokky 
 bank of the Tese to the Bek caulled Thuresgylle, a mile 
 from Barnardes Castelle, and there it hath a bridge of one 
 arche, and straite entereth into Tese." 
 
 Leland's Itinerary. 
 
 BED-STOCK, n. The wooden frame of a bed.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. V 
 
 BEEBAA, n. A nursery chant, used to lull children. 
 BEERERS, n. Bearers, the persons who carry a corpse to 
 
 the grave. 
 BEESS, n. Cattle, contracted from beasts. W. and C. 
 BEESTLINS, n. The milk given by a cow for a short time 
 
 after calving. A favorite pudding is made of this 
 
 milk. A. S. bysting. Fl. biest. Car., For., W. 
 
 and C, Wilb. 
 BEGGAR-MY-NEIGHBOUR, n. A game at cards. Jam. 
 BE-HINT, prep, and adv. Behind. Car., W. and C. 
 BELK, V. To belch. Car. 
 BELLY-BAND, n. A leather or woollen band, passing 
 
 under the belly of a horse, and attached to the shafts 
 
 of a cart. Car. 
 BELLY- WARK, n. A pain in the bowels. Car. 
 BELT, V. pret. Did build. 
 
 BELT, ^as<j9a;-if. Built. D.V., B. i. Jam., Car. 
 BENSEL, V. Beat. (Slightly known.) Jam., Car., W. and C. 
 BERE, V. To bear, as "to bear a weight." 
 BERRY, n. A gooseberry. Car., H., W. andC, Wilb. 
 BESOM ^A birch-broom (both forms are used). A. S. 
 BUZZOM/ besoin.^ LL^^, 
 
 BESSY-FRUGGAM, Applied to a female of slatternly ap- 
 pearance, or a male dressed in female attire going a 
 
 guisutg. See Guisers. 
 BETTERLY, a. "A betterly sort of day," a day fine by 
 
 comparison. 
 BETTERMORE, a. Better, as, "his bettermore coat." W. 
 
 and C. 
 BEVEL'D, a. Applied to a curved surface ; as to a road 
 
 which is curved from the centre, the highest part. 
 
 See Johnson, Webster. 
 BIBLE AND KEY, n. A superstitious mode of divination, 
 
 now obsolete. See Brand's P. A. iii. pp. 188-9 ; 
 
 Forbys E. A. G. p. 398. 
 
 1§
 
 10 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 BID, v. To invite to a wedding or a funeral. The persons 
 sent to invite to the funeral are called bidders. "I 
 am bid forth to supper," Shaksp. Merchant of Venice, 
 act ii, so. 5. See St. Luke, c. xiv, v. 24. A. S. 
 biddan. Car. 
 BIDE, V. To abide, endure. Jam., Car., W. and C. 
 BIDE, V. To stay, to remain. 
 BIDDY, a A louse. Car. 
 
 ^YDY^Gi, part., past bidin, i. e. past endurance. Car. 
 BIELD, V. To build. 
 BILE, n. A boil. 
 BIND, V. To bind. 
 
 BING, n. A bin: as a corn-hing, a wine-bing. A. S. bin. 
 Dan. bing, a heap. See P. P. i, p. 36, n. 5. Archceol. 
 xi, 440. 
 BINK, n. Bench, a seat, generally of stones, against the 
 front of a house. A. S. bene. Gekm. bancke. W. 
 and C. 
 BIRK, n. Birch. Teut. be7'ek. Jam., Car. 
 BIRK-ROD, n. Birch-rod. 
 
 BIRTLE, n. An apple, so called, much esteemed for eating. 
 This apple has probably been introduced from Birtle, 
 near Heywood, in Lancashire. I have never met with 
 more than three birtle trees, two at Newsham, and 
 one at Walker HalL Car. 
 BISHOBRIG, p. n. Bisliopric, i. e. of Durham ; by which 
 name the county is sometimes now, as formerly, called 
 by way of eminence, though at the present day it is 
 more frequently vxsed in common conversation by 
 those who are resident on the Yorkshire side of the 
 Tees; as, "he lives ow'r i Bishobrig." It occurs in 
 a Petition to the Protector, in the time of the Com- 
 monwealth : — 
 
 "The Humble Petition of the University of Cam- 
 bridge sheweth, —
 
 TEESBALE GLOSSARY. 11 
 
 " That your petitioners have notice of a grant ready 
 for the seal from your highness to a College at 
 Duresme in bishopric. ^ ^ ^ ^" 
 See Cooper's Annals of Camb., a,d. 1659 (p. 4/3.) 
 In the Life of John Buncle this word (bishoprick) is 
 frequently used for the county. 
 
 " He led the men of Bishopricke." 
 
 Scotfs Minstrelsy of the S. B., Lord Ewrie, 1. 13. 
 
 BIT, n. Used sometimes without the preposition, as a bitp)ie. 
 BIT, n. A whUe, as, "stop a bit" Car. 
 BITE, n. A mouthful ; as of bread. Car. 
 BLACK-A-VIZ'D, a. Dark in complexion. Car. 
 BLACK PUDDIN, n. A pudding made of the blood of a 
 
 pig, sviet, &c., and stuffed into the intestines. In a 
 
 giblet-pie, the blood of the goose is used in a similar 
 
 manner, though not confined in the intestine, as in 
 
 the black pudding. 
 BLACKY-MOOR, a. A man of colour. 
 BLAIN, n. Applied to a red swelling of the eyehd. Dan. 
 
 blein. Lane. 
 BLAKE, a. Yellow, applied to butter, &c. Car., W. and C. 
 BLAKE, a. Bleak, exposed. 
 BLARE, V. To put out the tongue, with or without making 
 
 a noise at the same time. Jam. 
 BLASH, V. To throw water or dirt. 
 BLASHY, a. Thin, meagre ; applied also to weather ; as 
 
 "a blashy day," a wet day. 
 BLAST, n. An explosion. 
 BLAST, V. To blast, as rocks with gunpowder. 
 BLATE, V. To bleat. 
 BLATE, a. Bashful. See Allan Ramsay s G,S . Jam., 
 
 W. and C, Wil. 
 BLAW, n. A blow. Jam., TV. and C. 
 BLAW, V. To blow. A. S. blawan.
 
 12 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 BLAW, V. To breathe thickly ; applied to a man or a 
 beast. 
 
 BLEAZE, n. A blaze. Used sometimes as a verb. Car. 
 
 BLEB, n. A drop of water ; also a blister, or rising of the 
 skin. Car., W. and C. 
 
 BLETHER, 71. Bladder. A. S. hlcBdr. See P. P. Car. 
 
 BLETHER, v. To cry. 
 
 BLIND, a. Blind. 
 
 BLINKERS, n. The part of a bridle or collar which covers 
 the eyes of a horse. 
 
 BLISH, n. The rising of the skin from scalding, or friction, 
 as from rowing, &c. 
 
 BLIST, part. Blest. Sp. 
 
 BLONK, n. A blank. 
 
 BLONK'D, a. Disappointed. 
 
 BLOB-CAP, n. A boyish pastime. Hats are placed against 
 the wall ; a ball is thrown from the distance of a few 
 yards into one of the caps or hats ; all then run away 
 except the owner of the cap, who hits any one that 
 he can with the ball, &c. &c. 
 
 BLOW, n. Blossoms. For. 
 
 BLUE MILK, a. Skimmed milk. Car. 
 
 BLUE-MILK CHEESE, ?i. Cheese made of skimmed milk. 
 
 BLUID, a. Blood. In Scotch, both bluid and blude are 
 met with. W. and C. 
 
 BLUIDY, a. Bloody. 
 
 BOBBIN, n. A cylindrical piece of wood, on which thread 
 is wound for weaving. 
 
 BODDUM, n. Bottom. Ger. bodem. Jam. 
 
 BODE, n. A price bid. Ger. bat. Jam. 
 
 BODLE, n. A copper coin, formerly in use in Scotland, of 
 the value of one sixth part of an English penny, 
 equal to two Scottish pennies. I have heard the coin 
 spoken of, and have some reason to believe that it 
 must have been in use in Teesdale in the early part of
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 13 
 
 last century. As in Scotland, we have tlie phrase, " I 
 dinna care a bodle for ye." See Jam., Car. 
 
 BOGGLE, n. Goblin, or something imperfectly seen, so as 
 to cause fright. Jatn. 
 
 BOGLE, v. To start, as a horse when frightened. 
 
 BOGLE-I-BO, A word used to frighten children. See 
 BrancVs P. A. ii, p. 295. 
 
 BOGLE-ABOUT-STACKS, n. A sport of children in a stack- 
 yard. 
 
 " 'Bout stacks with the lasses at bogle to play." 
 
 Flowers of the Forest, 1. 14. 
 
 BOILIN n. Boiling, a sufficient quantity for one meal ; 
 
 as, " a boiliii o' tatiesJ' 
 BOM AN, n. A term used to frighten children. See Sir W. 
 
 Scott's Prose Works, vol. xxiv, p. 368. 
 
 " Red-haired Boman." 
 
 BONNY, a. Pretty. Sh. See John. Used in a different 
 sense in For. W. and C. 
 
 BOODY-HOUSE, n. Used by children for any place orna- 
 mented with bits of glass or earthenware. See JVil. 
 Booty-house. 
 
 BOODY-POTS, n. Pieces of pots, china, &c., to make a 
 boody-house. 
 
 BOOK, V. To steep or soak linen in a lye of some particular 
 description. 
 
 BOOK, n. The lye so used. See Jam. Boukin. 
 
 BOOK, n. Bulk, size. Car. 
 
 BORN DAYS, n. Life ; as "in all my horn days.'' Car. 
 
 BOUNE, part. About to go to some place, or going to do 
 something ; as, " aw's bonne ti Stendrop ,-" " aw's 
 boune ti dook." Su. Got. boa, to make ready. Jam., 
 Car., H.
 
 14 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 BOUT, First bout, second bout, jirimce vices, secundcB vices, 
 
 &c. W. and C. 
 BOUT, n. An attack, as of illness, struggle ; as, " a sad 
 
 bout" 
 BOUT, ?i. Bolt. The pronunciation is perhaps better con- 
 veyed by "bowt." 
 BOUT AND SHACKLE, n. Bolt and shackle. Car. 
 BOWDIKITE, n. Applied to an ill-behaved or mischievous 
 
 child. 
 BOWEL-HOLE, n. An aperture in the wall of a barn or 
 
 stable for giving light. See Jam. Boal. 
 BOWLS, n. The game so called. I remember this game 
 
 being played in the village of Newsham, on the green, 
 
 at the east end, before it was inclosed. See Strutfs 
 
 Sp. and P., 235. 
 BRADE, a. Broad. A. S. brad. Car. 
 BRADE-KEST, a. Broad-cast, sown by the hand. Car. 
 BRADE, V. To have an involuntary desire to vomit. A. S. 
 
 ahredyan. Wil. 
 BRAFFAM, n. A collar for a draught horse. Sc. breckam. 
 BRAK, V. pret. Did break. Car. 
 
 BRAND-NEW, "la. Quite new. Dut. brand-nieuw. 
 
 BRAND-SPAN-NEW, j Jam., Car. 
 BRANG, V. pret. Did bring. 
 BRASH, n. Refuse. 
 BRASS, n. Used for copper coin ; also for money, riches, . 
 
 "he icas loorth a deal o brass." Car., W. and C. i-ji 
 BRAST, V. Did burst. Used by Spenser. Car., W. 
 
 and C. 
 BRAT, n. A slip or apron for a child ; used by Chaucer in 
 
 the sense of a coarse mantle. A. S. bratt. H., Lane, 
 
 W. and C. 
 BRAT, n. A child; so called generally in contempt. Lane. 
 BRATTED, a. Applied to boiled milk, which, when cooled 
 
 a little, has a film on the surface.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 15 
 
 BRAVELY, ad. Aws hravehj, I am in good health. Car., 
 
 W. and C. 
 BRAY, V. To beat, to bruise ; used also as a term of chas- 
 tisement. Car., W. and C. 
 BREA, n. Edge of any precipitous place difficult to pass, 
 
 and attended with some risk. W. and C. 
 BREAK-UP, V. A school is said to break-up when the 
 
 holidays commence. 
 BRECKINS, M. Fern. 
 BREDE, n. Breadth. A. S. breed, latitudo. Used by 
 
 Chaucer. 
 BREDE, n. Bread. 
 BREET, a. Bright. TV. and C. 
 BRENT, a. Steep. W. and C. 
 BREEST, n. Breast. 
 
 BRERE, n. Briar. P. R., Car., W. and C. 
 BREWSTER-SESSIONS, n. A petty sessions, when ma- 
 gistrates grant licences to innkeepers. It is usually 
 held in the month of September. 
 BRIDE-WAIN, n. The clothes and furniture of a bride. 
 
 Car. 
 BRIDLE-ROAD, n. A way for a horse, and not for a cart 
 
 or carriage. 
 BRIG, n. A bridge. A. S. bnjcg. Jam., Car., For., W. 
 
 and C. 
 BRIM, V. Applied to a boar having intercourse with the 
 
 sow. See P. P. i, p. 51. 
 BRIMMING, a. Applied to the sow, when in a state of 
 
 desire for the male. Wilb. 
 BROACH, n. An iron or wooden spindle appertaining to 
 
 the large wheel used for spinning wool. Car. 
 BROCKEN, 2J. pa. Broken. 
 BROIDER'D, p. jm. Embroidered. 
 
 BROSSEN, ) T, . , 1 » cj 7 f 
 
 T>T>TTc-c-nAT fP' P^' Burst, brokcn. A. S. hrysan, conterere. 
 DRUoSLiN, J
 
 16 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 BROSSEN-HEARTED, a. Broken-hearted. 
 
 BROWN LEEMER, n. A hazel-nut, quite ripe, so as to 
 
 leave the husk easily. 
 BRUMSTONE, n. Brimstone. 
 BRUSSLE, n. Bristle, the stiff hair growing on the neck 
 
 and back of a swine, used for brushes. A. S. bristl. 
 BUCK-STICK, n. Used in the pastime of spell and knor. 
 
 The head is made usually of some soft wood. The 
 
 handle or shank of a hazel cut in winter. 
 BUFFET, n. A cupboard. 
 BUFFET-STULE, n. A small stool. See Promp. Parv. i, 
 
 p. 41, n. G. Jam., For. Jamieson's description is 
 
 correct, except that the stool is not usually square. 
 BUIK, n. A book. A. S. hoc. Germ, huche. W. and C. 
 BUIT, n. Something given to effect an exchange. Car. 
 BUIT, n. Boot. W. and C. 
 BUIT (Boot), n. A balance of value given when something 
 
 is exchanged, as, "6d. to bute." Shaksp. Measure for 
 
 Measure, act ii, sc. 4; Winter's Tale, act iv, sc. 3; 
 
 King Richard III, act iv, sc. 4 ; King Lear, act v, sc. 3. 
 
 Car. 
 BULLACE, n. A large species of sloe. Car., H. 
 BUMBLE-BEE, n. A bee of a large species, apis lapi- 
 
 daria. Teut. bommen, sonare. Car., For. 
 
 " And as a bitore bumbleth in the mire." 
 
 Chaucer's Tf'ife of Bath. 
 
 Caltha Poetarum, or " Bumble Bee," composed by 
 T. Ciitwode, Esq., 1599. 
 
 " Retrospective Review," Gent.'s Mag. 
 
 The date of the above poem shows that the word 
 "bumble" is of very ancient usage. 
 BUMMEL-KITE, n. A bramble-berry. Car. 
 BUNCH, n. A kick with the foot.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 17 
 
 BUNCH, V. To strike witli tbe foot. Car. 
 
 BUND, a. Bound. TF. and C. 
 
 BURR, n. A plant. 
 
 BURTREE, n. The common elder. See Bourtree in Jam., 
 
 Car., Wllb. 
 BURTREE-GUN, n. A plaything used by boys. 
 
 It is made by hollowing a small branch of elder-tree, 
 and adapting to this tube a sort of ramrod, with a 
 handle ; tlie part fitting the hollow tube being a 
 little shorter than the tube. It is then charged 
 with two closely-fitting bullets (made of wet paper), 
 one of which (No. 1) is lodged at the end of egress; 
 the other (No. 2), being then driven in forcibly, 
 expels No. 1 ; No. 2, in like manner, remains to be 
 driven out in turn. 
 BUS, V. To dress. 
 
 BUSE, n. A beast-stall ; more generally used for the upper 
 
 part of the stall where the fodder Ues. A. S. bosiff. 
 
 Dan. baas. Sw. bds. Icel. bds. See Boose in TTllb., 
 
 Car. 
 
 BUT, ti. When the ridges in a field are of unequal length, 
 
 the short ones on the outside are called biifs. Car. 
 BUTTER AND BREDE, n. Butter and bread. In the 
 midland and southern countries, "bread" always 
 precedes its adjunct. In the district to which this 
 Glossary relates, the plirase is inverted in provincial 
 usage, as, "butter and brede," "cheese and brede," 
 &c. 
 
 " An' cheese an' bread, frae women's laps, 
 Was dealt about in lunches, 
 
 An' dawds that day." 
 
 Burns's Holy Fair. 
 
 BUTTER-CUP, n. A name given to a species of Ranunculus, 
 having bright yellow flowers. Car.
 
 18 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 
 
 BUZZARD, n. A cowardly person. Car. 
 BUZZOM-SHANK, n. A broomstick. 
 B'YANNY, a. Bony, having much bone. 
 BYER, n. A cowhouse. IF. and C. 
 
 /^ABBISH, n. Cabbage. 
 
 CABBISH, n. Cabbage, what is taken or purloined in 
 cutting out clothes. It. capezsa, roha caputa, from 
 L. ccqiio. See Tho7nson's Etymons. 
 
 CACK, V. Alvum exonerare. A. S. cac. Gekm. kacke. See 
 Pope's Imitation of Spenser, 1. 8. Jam. 
 
 CAFF, n. Chaflf. Kaf, used by Wiclife, Apology for the 
 LoUai'ds. A. S. ceaf. Germ, and Dut. kaf. Jam., 
 W. and C. 
 
 CAINGY, a. lU natured. 
 
 CALEEVERING, /j«?-^. Running about in a heedless and 
 noisy manner. H., W. and C. 
 
 CALF-LICKED, a. When a portion of the hair on the 
 forehead is turned in its growth out of its natural 
 position, the person is said to be calf-licked. Car., Hi 
 
 CALLER, a. Cool. JF. and C. 
 
 CALLIMINKY, n. A kind of cotton ; a calliminky petti- 
 coat. 
 
 CAM, n. A mound of earth to divide fields, without quicks 
 planted on it; also when the hedgerow has been 
 destroyed. Car. 
 
 CAM,T . p 
 
 CAMMEREL, n. A crooked piece of wood passing through 
 the ankles of the carcass of a sheep or other animal, 
 by means of which it is suspended. The word is 
 supposed to be of Celtic origin. Cam. in Gael, sig- 
 nifies crooked. Jam., Car. 
 
 CANKER, n. Rust. //., Lane.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 19 
 
 CANKERED, a. Rusty. 
 
 CANNILY, ad. Decently, gently, neatly, dexterously. 
 
 CANNY, a. Decent, gentle, neat ; a word of many signi- 
 fications. Jam. gives instances of several meanings of 
 this word not in use in England. His definitions 
 (18) are nearest to tlie English significations. TF. 
 and C. 
 
 CANT, V. To sell by auction. 
 
 CANTING, n. A sale by auction. 
 
 CAP, V. To surpass, to crown all. 
 
 CAP-SCREED, n. The border of a cap. Car. 
 
 CAR, n. Denotes any swampy, marshy land surrounded by 
 inclosed land, and occasionally under water. Car 
 House, Selaby Cars, Morton Cars, Seaton Cars. Isl. 
 kaer, palus. See P. P., i, 272, n. 1. Car. 
 
 CARLING SUNDAY, n. The Sunday preceding Palm 
 Sunday, when carlings are eaten. 
 
 CARLINGS, n. Prepared by putting gray peas in boiling 
 water, and half-boiling them, and afterwards in a 
 hot fryingpan with butter, pepper, and salt, till 
 they become crisp. They are eaten on the Sunday 
 before Palm Sunday, which is called Carling Sunday. 
 In Newark, Notts, it is called Careing Sunday. See 
 Gent.' s Mag. vol. 55, p. 779; Brand's P. Antiq. vol. i, 
 p. 95. The vulgar, in the North of England, have 
 the following rhyme : 
 
 " Tid, mid, raisera, 
 Carling, Palm, and Paste-egg Day." 
 
 For a variation of this couplet, see Gent's Mag. 1788, 
 
 vol. 58, p. 188 ; Carlisle's Account of Charities, p. 2G6. 
 
 Jam., Lane, Wild. 
 CART- JACK, n. A prop of two limbs, used in supporting 
 
 the body of a cart, in order to take a wheel off. 
 CART-SPURLING, n. The rut made by the wheel of a 
 
 cart. Germ. sjmr.
 
 20 TEESDALE GLOSSARY, 
 
 CAST, n. A swarm of bees. 
 
 CAT, n. See Tip-eat. 
 
 CAT-GALLOWS, n. A pastime of boys. Two sticks are 
 stuck in the ground vertically, and on projecting 
 twigs, or on the top, of these another is placed hori- 
 zontally, over which they leap. The height is 
 gradually increased. 
 
 CAT-HAWS, n. The fruit of the whitethorn. A plentiful 
 crop forbodes a hard winter. 
 " Mony haws, 
 Mony snaws." 
 
 CAT-I-KEYS. n. The seeds of the ash. 
 CAT-0-NINE-TAILS, n. A flexible leather strap, having 
 
 one end cut into nine slips about two inches in length. 
 
 It is now seldom used for the correction of boys. 
 CAUD, n. and a. Cold. A. S. cald. Car., W. and C. 
 CAVALDRY, n. Cavalry. 
 CAWKER, n. The hind part of a horse's shoe, sharpened 
 
 and pointed downwards ; applied also to the iron on 
 
 the heel of a shoe or clog. See CleeL The word is 
 
 used by old writers under the forms calkyns, and 
 
 calkhis, probably from Lat. calx, a heel. Teut. 
 
 kaiicken, ealcare. 
 CAWS AY, n. Causeway, a paved foot-road, such as not long 
 
 since was in the middle of Staindrop. Fr. chaussee. 
 
 See Promp. Parv.r,, p. 64. 
 CESS, n. A tax. The allowance to the poor under the 
 
 old Poor-law was sometimes so called. 
 CHAFT, 71. The jaw, chop. W. and C. 
 CHAIMER, n. Chamber. 
 CHAIMERLY, n. Urine; "your chaimberlie breeds fleas 
 
 like a loach.'' See Shakspeare, Hen. IV, Part I, 
 
 ii, 1. Car. 
 CHALDER, n. Chaldron. This is the form of both the 
 
 singular and plural numbers.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 21 
 
 CHAP, n. A word of verj^ general use for a man of any 
 age after boyhood. It is used with an epithet of com- 
 mendation or otherwise : as, "a nice chap" "a queer 
 chapr 
 
 CHASE, n. A receptacle for deer and game; of a middle 
 nature, between a forest and a park, being commonly 
 less than a forest, and not endued with so many liber- 
 ties, and yet of a larger compass, and stored with 
 greater diversity of game than a park. A chase differs 
 from a forest in this — that it may be in the hands of 
 a subject, which a forest, in its proper nature, cannot ; 
 and from a park, in that it is not inclosed ; and also 
 in that a man may have a chase in another man's 
 ground as well as in his own, having, indeed, the 
 liberty of keeping beasts of chase or royal game 
 therein, protected even from the owner of the land, 
 with a power of hunting them thereon, 
 
 " He and his lady both are at the lodge, 
 Upon the north side of this pleasant chase. 
 
 Sh., Tit. Jnd. ii, 4. 
 
 This word is introduced here from its being still 
 occasionally used as the designation of the district 
 of Marwood, which was once a chase attached to 
 Barnard Castle, extending along the Durham side 
 of the Tees, westward. 
 
 " But sure, no rigid jailer, thou 
 Wilt a short prison-walk allow, 
 Where summer flowers grow wild at will, 
 On Manvood Chase and Toller Hill." 
 
 Scott's Kokeby, canto v, 12. 
 
 CHATTER'D, a. A term applied to a fracture in wood. 
 CHEESES, n. The seeds of the common mallow are so 
 
 called by children. 
 CHERRY-STONES, n. A game played by boys. Cherry- 
 
 stone-pytte is met with in Skelton.
 
 CHILDRING, 
 CHILDER, 
 
 22 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 CHESWOOD, n. A cheese vat. 
 
 CHILDERMAS S DAY, n. The Feast of the Holy Inno- 
 cents. See Hone's E. D. B. vol. i, 1648; Sped. 
 No. 7; Brand's Pop. Ant. i, 295 ; Gent J s Mag. Jan. 
 1799, vol. 69, p. 33. 
 
 CHILDRIN, 
 
 n. Ihese three forms are used for "chil- 
 dren." Car., Lane, Wild. 
 
 CHIMLEY, n. Chimney. Ak., Car., For., H., Lane, 
 TF. and C, Wilb. 
 
 CHIMLEY-NUIK, n. Chimney-nook. B. J. Sad Shep- 
 herd, act i, so. 2. 
 
 " Alk. Where saw you her ? 
 
 ScATH. In the chimley-nuik within: she's there now." 
 Car. 
 
 CHIP, V. To break off, as the edge of a cnp or glass ; it is 
 applied also to an egg when the shell is cracked by 
 the young bird. Car. 
 
 CHIP UP, V. To trip up. When boys are sliding on the 
 ice, there is the cry among them, " Het foot het, chip) 
 up hollow, them 'at can.'" 
 
 CHIRM, V. Applied to the continuous moaning sound made 
 by a bird. " The swallow chirms upon the chimney- 
 top." Hutchinson's Week at a Cottage. A.^.cyrman. 
 Webster says that " chirm" is not in use. 
 
 CHIST, n. Chest. Car. 
 
 CHITTERLINS, n. The smaU guts th-essed as a dish. 
 Belg. schjterlingh. 
 
 " His warped ear hung o'er the strings, 
 
 Which was but souse to chitterlings^' 
 
 Hudibras. 
 Ak., Car. 
 
 CHIVE, n. A pot-herb. 
 
 CHIZZLE, n. Wheat-bran. 
 
 CHOW, V. To chew.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 23 
 
 CHOW, n. A cliew, as of tobacco. 
 
 CHRISTMAS EVE. There is a superstition that on this 
 evening oxen knee] in their stalls. The evening is 
 usually spent in merriment. The ule clog is laid on 
 the fire, and the ule-cake, cheese, and frumety are 
 served up at the festive board. See Hone's E. D. B. i, 
 1594. 
 
 CHUCK, n. A word by which, when repeated in quick 
 succession, hens and chickens are called to be fed. 
 Jam., Car. 
 
 CHUCKY, n. A familiar term for a barn-door fowl. 
 
 CHUMP, n. The part of a tree appearing above the ground 
 when the tree is cut down, a log of wood. Ak., For. 
 
 CLAG, V. a. and v. n. To stick on. 
 
 CLAGGY, a. Adhesive, sticky. 
 
 CLAIME, V. To stick together by viscid matter. A. S. 
 clcemian. Will. See Cleam in Car. 
 
 CLAISE, n. Clothes. JT^. and C. 
 
 CLAITH, n. Cloth. TV. and C. 
 
 CLAITH, V. To clothe. 
 
 CLAITHING, 71. Clothing. In this and the three pre- 
 ceding words the ordinary pronunciation is not accu- 
 rately conveyed by the spelling. 
 
 CLAM, ■) 
 
 CLOMB, I V. 2>ret. of climb. 
 
 CLUMB,J 
 
 CLAMMER, V. To climb. Lane. 
 
 CLAMP, a. A large heap of weeds and rubbish when set 
 on fire is so called. 
 
 CLAMP, V. To tread heavily. 
 
 CLAMS, n. A wooden vice, used by saddlers. Bel(;. 
 klemmen, stringere. Jam., II. 
 
 CLUNG,} '• ^"''^- ^^^ '^"S- 
 
 CLAP, V. To touch softly, to caress, as to pat a boy on the
 
 CLAP-BENNY, 
 
 24 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 head or shoulders ; applied also to the caressing of a 
 dumb animal. 
 
 Infants are requested to clap their 
 
 hands by way of making their re- 
 
 v^uxvx -ul:Jl^ 1, X, / quests, or of expressing their thanks 
 
 CLAP-BENE, \ for anything given to them. Isl. 
 
 klappa, to clap, and A. S. ben. a 
 prayer. Car., H. 
 CLART, V. To dirt. TV. and C. 
 CLART, n. Dirt. W. and C. 
 CLARTY, a. Dirty. Car., W. and C. 
 CLASH, V. To throw down anything in a violent manner ; 
 
 probably from Germ, klatschen. 
 CLASHY, a. Wet, applied to the weather or road. 
 CLAUT, V. To claw or scratch. 
 CLAVVER, V. To climb up. W. and C. 
 CLAVVER, n. Clover. A. S. cltefer. DuT. Mover. W. 
 
 and C. 
 CLEA {Cle-a), n. Claw. Car., For., Wilh. 
 CLEAN, adv. Entirely, as might be said of a pair of 
 old shoes no longer fit to wear ; " thir shoes is clean 
 diine." 
 
 " But men may constnie things after their fashion, 
 Clean from the purpose of the things themselves." 
 
 Sh., Jul. Cms. 1, 3. 
 
 See also Shaks. Henry VIII, i, 3; Cymbehne, iii, 6; 
 Tit. And. i, 2 ; Othello, i, 3. 
 CLEANING, n. The after-birth of a cow. Car. 
 CLEET, n. A piece of u'on on the bottom of the soles or 
 
 heels of clogs or shoes. 
 CLEG, n. The horse-fly. Dan. klceg. Jam., Car. 
 
 " He liad a litill we leg, 
 And it vves cant as any cleff." 
 
 Scott's Poetical Works, i, p. 268. 
 
 CLETCII, n. A brood of chickens, ducks, or goshngs. H.
 
 TEJESDALE GLOSSARY. 25 
 
 CLETHING, n. Clothing. Car. 
 
 CLICK, n. To snatch hastily. Car., W. and C. 
 
 CLIM, V. To climb, A. S. climan. Car. 
 
 CLIP, n. The wool shorn in one year. Car., For. 
 
 CLIP, V. To cut off with scissors, to shear sheep. Car., For. 
 
 CLIPPING, «. A sheep-shearing. For. 8ce Brand's Poj). 
 Ant. ii, 20. 
 
 CLOCK, n. A small species of beetle. Germ, ehdeich, 
 scarabceus. See Ancient Glossary of Gerbert. From 
 Schtnelle?', it appears that kleleck was the Bavarian 
 appellation for the ScarabcBus stei'corarius in the 1 7th 
 century. 
 
 CLOCK, n. The name given to the ripe seed of the dande- 
 lion. The schoolboy fancies that he finds out the 
 hour by the number of puffs of his breath requisite 
 to disperse the whole of the seed. He, however, 
 usually moderates his pufis, so that the day may ap- 
 pear not quite so far spent as it really is. For a 
 difierent custom connected with this plant, see For. 
 p. 423. 
 
 CLOCK, n. The ornamented part of a stocking from the 
 ankles a few inches upwards. 
 
 CLOCKING, n. The noise made by the hen when she has 
 laid her egg ; also, when desirous of sitting to hatch 
 them. A. S. cloccan. 
 
 CLOGS, n. A kind of shoes ; the upper part being made 
 of strong leather, and the soles altogether of wood. 
 The heels, and also the soles in the fore part (i. e. all 
 except the narrow part of the sole), are bound with 
 a thin plate of iron. Sometimes a cleet is attached 
 to the heel. W. and C. 
 
 CLOT, n. Clod. Car. 
 
 CLOUT, n. Cloth. 
 
 CLOWER, n. The floodgate of a milldam {porta clausd). 
 See Clow in Car. 
 
 2
 
 
 26 TEESDALE GLOSSAUY, 
 
 CTjUD-NUT, n. Two nuts naturally united are so called. 
 
 CLUIMP, n. A small circular plantation. H. 
 
 CLUTHER, V. To collect in a mass. Car. 
 
 CLUVES, n. The hoofs of cattle and pigs. W. and C. 
 
 COB, V. Applied to the pulling the hair of a boy, as a 
 punishment inflicted by his schoolfellows for the com- 
 mission of a mean though sinless ofTence. During 
 the punishment, the castigators, each holding the cul- 
 prit by a lock of his hair, are compelled to stand on 
 one leg while some one pronounces a sort of procla- 
 mation, in verse, remarkable neither for its poetry 
 nor decency; the condition imposed by it being, that 
 whoever does not assist in the punishment, shall 
 himself undergo a similar one. The commencement 
 
 is — 
 
 " A rannel, a rannel, a grey guse horn." 
 ***** 
 
 The ceremony concludes by each boy spitting over the 
 head of the offender, who, upon whistling, is entitled 
 to be released. The above nearly corresponds with 
 the description given under the word randle, by Car. 
 The punishment of cobbing, differing in many respects 
 from the above, is practised in some parts of Scotland. 
 See Jamieson. 
 COBBLE-STANE, n. A large smooth stone of a roundish 
 
 shape. Web., Car. 
 COBBY, a. Hearty, brisk. Used by Chaucer. See Car. 
 
 n. The childish name of a foal ; coddy 
 is also a word which, when repeated, 
 is used in caUing a foal. 
 CODLING, n. An apple so called. The "Keswick codling" 
 
 is in great esteem. 
 COFFIN, n. When a cinder springs sharply out of the fire 
 it is called either a purse or a coffin ; the distinction 
 depending not on the shape, but on its making a 
 
 ^ CODDY, Cs-f,^^ ^ 
 
 '''^' CODDY-FOAL,
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 27 
 
 crackling noise, or being perfectly silent ; in the former 
 case it is called a purse. This idle piece-- of super- 
 stition is not attended with very violent emotions 
 either of grief or joy, although, originally, no doubt 
 it was supposed to forebode wealth or death to the 
 person nearest to whom it first fell. 
 COGGLY, a. Unsteady, inclining to fall. 
 COIN, n, A stone in a wall, which passes through. ^ 
 COLEY, 11. A species of cur-dog, a shepherd's dog. :'€-,'■•* — Ki^^jj^-t,, 
 
 " A better lad ne'er lean'd out-owre a kent, 
 Or hounded coUey o'er the mossy bent." 
 
 A. Ramsay's Pastorals. 
 
 COLLEY, n. A term for bacon, and also for butchers' 
 meat. It is only addressed to children, and used by 
 them. " Tnfie and coUey," potato and bacon. 
 
 COLLOP, n. A slice of bacon. Sw. koUop. For derivation 
 see Brand" s P. A. i, p. 36. Car. 
 
 COLLOP-MONDAY, n. The day preceding Shrove Tuesday. 
 On this day it is usual to have bacon collops and eggs 
 for dinner. See Hone's E. B. B. p. 241, vol. i; also 
 Hones Y. B. pp. 149-50 ; Brand's Pop. Ant. i, 35 ; 
 Gent.'s May. 1790, August, p. 719. W. and C. 
 
 COME YOUR WAYS, Addressed to a person when re- 
 quired to attend another, or to leave some particular 
 place. Used by Shaks. See All's Well that Ends 
 Well, act ii, sc. 1. "Nay, come your ways.''" Hamlet, 
 act i, sc. 3, " Come your ways."'' 
 
 " Where Aire to Calder calls, and bids her come her ways." 
 
 Drayton's Polyolbion, Sony 28th. 
 Car., H. 
 
 COMMETHER, Come hither, addressed to horses. 
 COMPOST, n. A mixture of soil, Ume, &c. John. 
 
 CONSATE, n. Conceit, fancy, opinion. " Awl t&k t" consate 
 out o' thou?"
 
 28 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 
 
 CONSATE, V. To believe, imagine. "Aw eonsate seah ;" 
 consayte, used by >S''^. 
 
 COOTER, n. Coulter, the fore-iron of a plough. Lat. 
 culter. Germ. koJter. Dut. holder. 
 
 COP, n. A crest. Crested hens are called coipt hens. 
 A. S. coj). 
 
 COPE, V. To exchange. Goth, koupan. 
 
 COPE, n. An exchange. 
 
 COPING-STONE, n. The top stone of a wall, when of a 
 shape other than flat. 
 
 COPPIN, n. A piece of woi'sted taken from the spindle, 
 
 CORF, n. A basket made of wicker-work, used for drawing 
 coals out of the pit. Geum. korb. Dut. korf. Corf'e, 
 used by Caxton: see Boke for Travellers. 
 
 COTE, n. Pigeon-cote, a house for pigeons. 
 
 COTTER'D, a. Entangled; applied to hair, either human 
 or that of an animal. W. and C. 
 
 COTTERELS, n. Cash (nearly obsolete). Car. 
 
 COTTRIL, n. A spring put through the eye of a bolt. 
 
 COUNTRY-SIDE, n. A term for a district of country. 
 
 COUR, V. As to "coitr down," to escape being observed. H. 
 
 COWL, V. To scrape together. Fe. cueillir. Ital. cog- 
 liere. Car. 
 
 COWL-RAKE, n. An iron implement for raking together 
 cinders or ashes. From the nature of its service it 
 may sometimes be pronounced coal-rake ; this pro- 
 nunciation, however, is improper. See Col-rake in 
 P. P., and Coul-rake in Wil. 
 
 COW-PLAT, n. The dung of a cow. 
 
 COW-TEE, 1 , 
 
 COW-TYE,/'^-^^^^-'^^- 
 
 CRACK, V. To boast of anything. Sk. Shaks. Love's 
 Labour Lost, act iv, sc. i. H., W. and C. 
 
 CRACKS, n. As, " I'll set you your cracks,'' i. e. I'll do 
 a feat which vou cannot do. This word is in use
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 29 
 
 principally among boys when engaged in their spoxts, 
 
 more especially in leaping either on plain ground or 
 
 across a ditch or hedge, or over a cat-gallows. 
 CRACKS, n. News, or hearty conversation. 
 CRAG, n. The neck ; the neck of a goose in a giblet-pie is 
 
 so called. 
 CRAMLY, a. Feebly and lamely, as to walk "varry 
 
 cramly." See Car. 
 CRAME, ?j. To mend by joining together, as earthen or 
 
 wooden ware. 
 CRANCH, V. Applied to eating any hard and somewhat 
 
 brittle substance, which causes a harsh kind of noise. 
 
 Also to tread on a cinder would be to crunch it. Car., 
 
 H. 
 CRANK, n. A bent iron axis, used in turning a wheel or 
 
 grindstone. 
 CRANKY, a. Sickly, feeble. 
 CRAP, V. Pret. Did creep. TF. and C. 
 CRAPPINS, n. Fat being melted, the remains are so called, 
 
 and used for a sort of cake. 
 CRATE, n. A basket for carrying earthenware. Lat. 
 
 crates. 
 CRAW, n. A crow. A. S. craw. Germ, hrahe. Dan. 
 
 crage. Car. 
 CRAW, V. To crow. 
 
 CRECKIT, n. Cricket, a stool of an oblong shape. Bri- 
 tish, kriget, a little elevation. See John., Web., 
 
 Car. 
 CRECKIT, n. Cricket, an insect of the genus Gryllus. 
 CRECKIT, n. Cricket, a game with bats, ball, and wickets. 
 CREOLE, n. A cradle. W. aud C. 
 CREEL, n. The upright basket used to contain the wool 
 
 in former times, when carded, to be spun on the woollen 
 
 wheel now laid aside. 
 CREW, V. Pret. of crow.
 
 30 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 CRIS-CROSS, n. The mark of a person who cannot write 
 his name. See Naves' Gloss. 
 
 CROFT, n. A small inclosure near a house : occurring 
 frequently in the names of places, as the village of 
 Croft, Osmond-Croft, Woden-Croft, &c. A. S. eroft. 
 
 CROOK, n. A disease in pigs, affecting the back, and de- 
 priving them of the use of their hinder legs. 
 
 CROPEN, p. p. of creep. Used by Chaucer. 
 
 CROTELLY, a. Reduced to small particles or crumbs, and 
 almost to a powder. 
 
 CROWDIE, n. A well-known mess of oatmeal for breakfast. 
 It is usually eaten with either milk or treacle, or 
 butter and sugar, as an accompaniment. When the 
 last three articles are used, they are put on the centre 
 of the surface of the crowdie. The origin of the word 
 is doubtful. It occurs in the Scotch ballad : 
 
 " Crowdie ance, crowdie twice, 
 Crowdie three times in a day ; 
 An' ye crowdie ouy mair, 
 
 Ye'll crowdie a' my meal away." 
 
 Jam., Car., W. mid C. 
 CROWLEY'S CREW, Applied, in an old song which I 
 
 remember hearing, to the men employed in the iron 
 
 works at Winlaton and Sw^alwell, near Newcastle, 
 
 established a,d. 1G90 by Sir A. Crowley. See S])ec- 
 
 tator. No. 299. 
 CROWNER, n. Coroner. Car. 
 CRUD, V. To curdle. 
 
 CRUD, n. Curd. Car., H., W. and C, Wilh. 
 CRULE, V. To work with worsted of various colours. 
 CRUL'D, a. As, a cruVd ball, a child's ball, covered with 
 
 worsted, wrought with various colours, and in various 
 
 patterns. 
 CRUNE, V. Applied to the bellowing and moaning noise 
 
 made by a beast; sometimes, also, applied to the
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAllY. 31 
 
 roaring noise made by a child. Dut. kreunen. Jam., 
 
 Car., W. and C. 
 
 This word is generally used as a verb or participle, 
 
 and very rarely as a noun. It occurs as a noun 
 
 in A. R. Gentle Shep. 
 
 " She can o'ercast the night, an' cloud the moon, 
 An' mak the deils obedient to her crime." 
 
 As a verb in the following verse : 
 
 " Now Clinkembell, wi rattlin' tow. 
 Begins to jow and croon, 
 Some swagger hame, the best they dow. 
 Some wait the afternoon." 
 
 Burm's Holy Fair. 
 See D. V. 300. 
 CUDDLE, V. To embrace, applied chiefly to children em- 
 bracing their parents, but sometimes also to the eta- 
 braces of those of mature years. Car. 
 CUDDLE, n. An embrace. 
 CUDDY, p. n. Cuthbert. 
 CUDDY, n. AppUed to a left-handed person. 
 CUKE, 71. Cook. 
 CUKE, V. To cook. 
 
 CULE, a. Cool. "About Zule, quhen the wind blew 
 cule.'" Percy s Relujues, Young Waters, vol. ii, p. 
 227, L 1. 
 CULE, V. To cool. 
 
 CUM, V. Applied to the curding of milk in making cheese. 
 CURRAN, n. Currant. 
 CURRAN BERRIES, n. Currants, black, white, or red. 
 
 Car. 
 CURTAIN, n. A small inclosed space in the precincts of 
 a house, either before or behind. Also a road branch- 
 ing from the main road through a village to houses 
 which stand a little way back out of the line of the 
 others, as is the case in the village of Newsham.
 
 32 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 CUSH "1 
 
 ^■,^t:,'r^ r«. A worcl used in callina: a cow, as to her meal. 
 
 CUSHIEJ =' 
 
 CUSHIE-COW, n. Used when speaking of this animal to 
 
 children, and also by children. Car. 
 CUSHAT, n. The wood pigeon. A. S. cusceote. Wil. 
 CUT, ?z. A certain quantity of yarn. Jam. The fineness 
 
 and worth of flax is estimated by the number of cuts 
 
 in a pound. 
 CUTE, «. Intelligent, clever; probably from A. S. cuth. 
 
 Car., For., H., Wilb. 
 CUTS, n. Lots, as to draw cuts. Jam., H. See Shaksp. 
 
 Com. of Errors, act v, sc. i. " Dro. o/^S. We'll draw 
 
 cuts for the senior." " I think it best to d?'aw cuts, 
 
 and avoid contention." Walton s Angler. Used by 
 
 Chaucer. See the song of " Bessy Bell and Mary 
 
 Gray." 
 
 These cuts are usually made of straws, unequally cut. 
 
 D 
 
 AB, n. Applied to one who is expert in anything. 
 
 " Frae me an auld dab tak advice." 
 
 A. Ramsay. 
 
 Car., Lane. 
 DADDY, n. The name used by a child for its father. See 
 
 Jam. under Daddie. Car. 
 DAFFLE, V. n. To show signs of decay of memory and 
 
 mental faculty. 
 DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY, n. Daffodil. H. 
 DAFT, a. Weak in intellect, foolish. 
 DAGGY, a. Drizzly. W. and C. 
 DAIZED, a. Numbed with cold. Jam. 
 DAM, n. A barrier of stones, &c., to obstruct the course 
 
 of a stream. 
 DAM, V. To construct such a barrier. 
 DAMAGE, n. Cost, expense.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 33 
 
 DANDY-PRAT, n. An ignominious term, applied to any 
 one of small or insignificant stature. 
 King Henry the Seventh stamped a small coyne called 
 dandy -prats. See Camden's Remains, 1623, p. 177- 
 Anecdotes and Traditions, Camden Society's Pub., 
 p. 18. 
 DANG, ']v. Pret. of Ding. The word has occasionally 
 DUNG, J also tjie same meaning as in the old Scottish 
 song, "Dunse dings a'," i. e. Dnnse surpasses or 
 excels all other places. So in the song, " Jenny 
 dang the weaver." 
 
 m^G-m,p.pr.\^ 
 
 T^TTTVT/-. r I'rom v. Ding. 
 
 DUNG, p. pa. J -^ 
 
 DARK, V. To listen in an unobserved manner. Car. 
 
 DARKENING, n. Evening twilight. A. S. deorcung. 
 
 DARNTON, J)- ^- Darlington ; used in this form in the 
 time of Queen Elizabeth. See Letter from Sir George 
 Bowes to the Earl of Sussex, 1569. 'Queen Ehzabeth 
 and Her Times,' by T. Wright, F.S.A. 
 
 DARNTON TROD. A boy having done some mischief is 
 warned by those who have no authority over him to 
 "tak Barnton trod,'" that he may get out of the way 
 and escape chastisement. 
 
 DAURAK, n. Day's work. A. S. daeg-weorc. 
 
 " Monie a sair daurk we twa hae wrouarht." 
 
 o' 
 
 Bur. 
 
 DAWDLE, V. To trifle, to be slow in doing anything. Car. 
 DAYTALMAN, «. .A day labourer, as distinguished from a 
 
 servant who is hired by the year. Car. 
 DAYTALWORK, n. The employment of a daytalman. Car. 
 DAZED, a. Applied to bread not well baked ; also to meat 
 
 roasted by too slow a fire. //. s 
 
 DEAVE, V. To deafen. Jam., Wilb. 
 
 2§
 
 34 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 DEE, r. To die. Car., II., W. and C, JFilb,, 
 Deeviff, dying; deid, dead, 
 
 DEED, a. Dead. 
 
 DEEF, a. A nut having no kernel is said to be deef. H., 
 Wilb. 
 
 DEEF, a. Deaf. W. and C. 
 
 DEEIN, p. pr. Dying. 
 
 DEETII, n. Death. W. and C. 
 
 DELF, n. Plates and dishes. This word is derived pro- 
 bably from Delft, in Holland. 
 
 DELF-RACK, n. A piece of household furniture on which 
 plates and dishes in common use are placed. 
 
 DELVE, V. To dig. A. S. delfan. 
 
 DENCIIED, ?^, Squeamish as to some article of food. See 
 Denshauch, Jam. 
 
 DENE, n. A hollow. See Co. Litt. 4 b. 
 
 There are several denes in the county of Durham, all, 
 or most of which, are a kind of ravine or hollow, 
 through which a rivulet runs, and the banks on either 
 side are studded with trees. A. S. dcB7i. 
 
 DENT,"\«. A mark received from a blow. A. S. dynt. 
 
 DINT, J H., Bar. 
 
 DESS, n. A haystack is cut vertically, the horizontal 
 outline of the section being nearly a square : the hay 
 so cut out from top to bottom is called a dess. The 
 hay usually cut at one time is called a canch. Jam. 
 under Das., Car. (1). 
 DEUSE, a. Devil. 
 
 Sf;tU«- An a... 0«o*«.. seldom used.) 
 
 DICKY-BIRD, n. A term used for a bird in addressing 
 
 children. 
 DIKE, n. A hedge, either of quicks, or stakes and wattles. 
 
 In the South of England, dijke means a ditch. In
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 35 
 
 Holland, a dyke is a mound. A. S. die. Germ, deich. 
 
 DuT. dyk. 
 DIKE-GUTTER, n. A ditch running along the bottom of 
 
 a hedge. 
 DIKING-MITTENS, n. Large gloves made of horse-skin 
 
 leather, with a thumb, but no fingers. 
 DILL, V. To allay pain. Car. 
 DING, V. To strike, beat. Jam. 
 DING-DOON, V. To push down. So used by WicUffe. 
 
 Apol. for Lollards, printed forCamd. Soc. p. 36, 1. 1, 
 
 p. 71, 1. 32. Car., For. 
 DING-DONG, adv. Words used to express the sound of 
 
 bells. 
 
 " Ding, dong, bell, 
 
 Cat's faun into t' well." 
 
 Nursery Rhymes. 
 
 " Let us all ring fancy's knell, 
 I'll begin it — ding, dong, bell, 
 
 Ding, dong, bell." 
 
 Mercht. of Venice, act iii, sc. 2. 
 
 " Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell. 
 Hark ! now I hear them — ding, dong, bell !" 
 
 Sh., Tempest, i, 2. 
 DINNOT, V. Do not. 
 
 DIP, V. To incline, as, "the field dips to the east." 
 
 DIPNESS, n. Depth. A. S. deopnys. 
 
 DIRDUM, a. Noise. Jam. (1). 
 
 DISH-CLOUT, n. Dish-cloth. 
 
 DITTEN, n. A soft mixture applied to the edges of the 
 
 door of a brick oven so as more effectually to confine 
 
 the heat. A. S. dyttan, to close or shut up. 
 DIZ, V. Does. 
 DOBBY, n. A vulgar name for an apparition or sprite, as 
 
 Mortham dobie, Piperwell-sike dobie. W. and C, Wii. 
 DOCKIN, n. The dock, the plant rumex. A. S. docee. 
 
 Gr. havKos. Lat. daucus. Jam.
 
 36 TEESDALE GLOSSARY, 
 
 A person stung with a nettle is supposed to be curable 
 by a charm; "In docJdn, out nettle," being pro- 
 nounced while the part affected is rubbed with this 
 plant. See Ak., Bar., Car., Wilb., Wil. 
 
 TDODD, V. To cut away the dirty wool from and near 
 < tlie tails of sheep. 
 
 LdODDINGS, n. The wool so cut. 
 DODDERING DILLIES, n. The heads of the briza or 
 
 quaking grass. 
 DODDER, V. To tremble. W. and C, Wil. 
 DOFF, V. To put off, as dress. Used by Shaks. frequently. 
 
 JF. and C. 
 DOG, n. The iron at the end of the fire to keep the fuel 
 
 together. 
 DOG, n. A wooden household utensil, rudely shaped like 
 
 a dog, used for toasting bread. Car. 
 DON, i\ To put on, opposed to dq^. Used by Sh. only 
 
 once in the present and once or twice in the past 
 
 tense. TF. and C. 
 DONNAT, n. Applied to a worthless idle person ; as, 
 
 " That at t' donnaf." 
 
 " Jannet, thou donot, 
 I'll lay my best bonnet." 
 
 Minst. of S. B. 
 Car. 
 
 DOOK, v.n. To bathe. Jam. 
 
 DOOR, n. Door. Pronounced as do-er, the noun. 
 
 DOOR-CHECKS, n. The upright posts at the sides of a 
 
 door. Car., 11. 
 DOOR-STANES, n. pi. The stone pavement about the 
 
 outer door. Jam., Car. 
 DOORSTEAD, n. Threshold. H. 
 DOPE, n. A dojje-craiv, the carrion crow. 
 DOUN, prep, and adv. Down. 
 DOUN-DINNER, n. An afternoon's repast. The same
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 37 
 
 meaning belongs to the words orndoni, uandorn, 
 
 orndinner, &c., which are said to be corrupt, the true 
 
 form being undorn oxundern. Goth, undaurn. A. S. 
 
 undern. Germ, untern. 
 
 DOUN-LYING, n. The time of a woman's parturition. For. 
 
 DOUR, a. Downcast, forbidding, as, "a dour countenance." 
 
 DOW, V. To thrive in health, to prosper in trade, to 
 
 jflourish. TuET. dawen. 
 
 " Unty'd to a man, 
 
 Do whate'er we can, 
 
 We never can thrive or dow." 
 
 A. Ramsay. 
 
 DOW, " He was nowt o' t' dow,'" he was a good-for-nothing. 
 DOWLY, a. Melancholy, when applied to persons; lonely, 
 when applied to places. Lat, dolor. Fr. deuil. Wel. 
 dulyn. 
 DOWTER, n. Daughter. A. S. dohtor. Germ, tochter. 
 DuT. dochter. Dan. datter. Sw. dotter. Icel. 
 dottir. Car., W. and Car. 
 DOZZLE, n. The ornamental piece of pastry in the centre 
 of the lid of a pie. 
 
 This word is probably derived from the Fr. dosil (or 
 doitcil), or, according to Cotgrave, doisil, a faucet. 
 See P. P. Botelle. In the " Seuyn Sages" it is re- 
 lated how Ypocras pierced a tun in a thousand places. 
 
 " And tho' he hadde mad holes so fele, 
 In ech he pelt a dosele. " Lme 1150. 
 
 See Lottie in Jam. Dossel, Car., where the word has 
 a different meaning from the above. 
 DRABBLED, p. ^j«. Soiled with wet and dirt, as a gown or 
 
 skirt may be. 
 DRAFF, n. Grains of malt. 
 
 " Why should I sowen draf oat of my fist, 
 Whan I may sowen whete if that me list." 
 
 Ch. Persone's Prof. 
 
 . 6 Kr '' ^
 
 38 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 The word occurs twice in Shaks.: in 1 Hen. IV, act iv, 
 sc. 2, and in the Merry Wives of Windsor, where the 
 old proverb is introduced : 
 
 " 'Tis old but true, ' still swine eat all the drqf.' " 
 
 Used also by B. J. Sk. vol. i, p. 100, 1. 171. Jam., 
 
 Car., TV. and C, Lane. 
 DRAVE, V. Pret. of drive. Car. 
 DREE, a. Lonely, wearisome. H., W. and C. 
 DREEP, V. To drop with wet. A. S. dripan. Dux. 
 
 drop2)en. 
 DREEPING WET, a. Thoroughly soaked. For. 
 DRESSER, n. A piece of household furniture, the lower 
 
 part having closets, the upper having shelves for 
 
 plates. Car. 
 DRIBBLETS, n. pi. Small sums ; a word used also in the 
 
 game of marbles. 
 DRIPPING, n. The fat and gravy from roasted meat. 
 DRISS, n. and v. Dress. 
 DRITE, V. To speak in a singing manner, as children do 
 
 when learning to read; to drawl out the words in 
 
 reading or speaking. 
 DROON, V. Drown. 
 
 DROOT, n. Dryness. A. S. drigan, to dry. 
 DROP-DRY, a. Applied to a building when the roof is 
 
 secured so as to keep out the rain. 
 DROUGHT, n. Applied to a team of horses in combination 
 
 with the cart or plough. 
 DRUCKEN, p. pa. Drunken ; denoting also one given to 
 
 inebriety, as, "a sad drucken chap." Dan. drukken. 
 
 IcEL. driickin. 
 DRY, a. Thirsty. //. 
 DRY, V. To dry a cow, to leave off milking her before the 
 
 time of calving. 
 DUBBLER, n. An earthenware uibh of a round shape,
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 39 
 
 glazed only in the inside. "Disches and Dobeleres" 
 P. PL Fr. doublier. Wel. dwhler. H. 
 DUCK AND DRAKE, n. A pastime among boys. A thin 
 flat stone is thrown along the surface of water so as to 
 touch several times before sinking. The following 
 rhyme accompanies the sport : 
 
 " Duck and a drake, 
 And a lily white cake." 
 
 ^Q&Brand'sP.A.u,^. 247; StrutfsS.andP.Tp. 342; 
 Ca?'., Hart, H. 
 DUCKY, n. A term for a drink, when children are addressed : 
 
 also used by children. 
 DUDS, n. Male wearing apparel. Jam. 
 DUFFLE, n. Rough cloth, of a light drab colour. Car. 
 DULBERT, n. A stupid person. Icel. did, stultitia. 
 
 Car. 
 DULL, a. Dull of hearing, i. e. hard of hearing. 
 DUMMY, n. A dumb man. A well-known and very in- 
 genious artizan in the village of Newsham was almost 
 as often designated by this word as by his proper 
 name (Harry Lister). 
 DUNE, ^j. pa. Done. 
 DUNDER-NODDLE, n. A Blockhead. 
 DURABLE, a. Lasting ; also applied to one who is in the 
 habit of sitting long and late for the purpose of con- 
 versation. 
 DUZZY, a. Dizzy. Germ, dusel, dizziness. For. 
 D'YAM, a. Dame, the mistress of the house. This word 
 is now nearly obsolete in this sense : it was, in the 
 last century, in very general use in the households of 
 the farmei's, and the class now designated gentlemen 
 farmers. In those times " t'maister and tWywrn" 
 took their meals together with their household ser- 
 vants.
 
 40 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 In this sense the word occurs in the following song : 
 
 " Come, bring with a noise, 
 
 My merrie, raerrie boyes, 
 
 The Christmas log to the firing : 
 
 While my good dame, she 
 
 Bids ye all be free, 
 
 And drink to your heart's desiring." 
 
 Herrick. 
 
 So also in the following passage : 
 Shep. " Fye, daughter ! when my old wife Uv'd, upon 
 This day, she was both pantler, butler, cook ; 
 Both dame and servant : welcom'd all : serv'd all : 
 Would sing her song, and dance her turn : now here, 
 At upper end o' the table, now, i' the middle ; 
 On his shoulder, and his." 
 
 ShaL, Winter's Tale, act iv, sc. 3. 
 
 Ein many provincial words, occurs in the place of a, as 
 • gether, gather, wesh, wash, &c. 
 EAR, w. A kidney. Germ. mere. See /«m., ears ; Car. 
 
 near. 
 EARAND, n. Errand. Ice. erende. Car. 
 EARNING, n. Rennet. 
 
 " Since naithing's awa, as we can learn, 
 The kirns to kirn and milk to earn, 
 Gar butt the house, lass, and waken my bairn. 
 And bid her come quickly ben." 
 
 Gaberlunzie Man, P. R ii, 65. 
 
 EASINGS, n. The eaves of a house. Car. (1), H., Lane, 
 Wilb. 
 
 EASTER SUNDAY. An old custom prevails on this day. 
 Young men take off the shoes of the girls, for which 
 a ransom must be given. On the following day (Easter 
 Monday) the girls take off the men's hats. The 
 custom is now all but obsolete. 
 
 This custom seems to bear some analogy to that of 
 "heaving" or "lifting" which prevails in Lan-
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 41 
 
 cashire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and other parts 
 of England. 
 
 See Brand's P. A.'i. 106-7; Hone's E. D. B. i, 
 422, &c. 
 Another custom seems to have prevailed at this season ; 
 on Easter Monday the women used to tie a rope 
 across a road, and by this device, or otherwise, they 
 procured money, which they afterwards spent in tea- 
 drinking and tansey-cake, and if the proceeds would 
 admit of it, something more exhilarating. This 
 custom seems to be related to that of Hock-tide, a 
 fortnight after Easter. See Brand'' s P. A. i, 112. 
 
 ECCLE, V. Of same meaning as ettle, though very rarely 
 used. 
 
 EDDER, (pronounced ether), n. An adder. Dux. adder. 
 
 " Frae fertile fields where nae curs'd edders creep, 
 To stang the herds that in rash-busses creep." 
 
 ^. Ramsay. 
 Car. 
 
 EE, n. An eye. A. S. eaffe. 
 
 " I'll bow my leg and crook my knee, 
 And di-aw a black clout owre my ee, 
 A cripple or blind they will cau me, 
 W^hile we sail sing and be merrie, O." 
 
 Galerlunzie Man, P. R. ii, 67. 
 
 EEN, Eyes. Shaks. useset/ne. Taming of a Shrew, v, 1. 
 
 Spenser uses ei/en. Car , H., W. and C. 
 EFTER, prejJ. After. A. S. cefter. Dan. e/tir. 
 
 " And at the last, efter full lang muysing." 
 
 D. V. p. 214. 
 Car., TJ^. and C. 
 
 EFTER-CLECKING, n. One of a second brood. 
 
 EFTER-CLETCH, n. An after or second brood in the same 
 
 year. 
 EFTER-TEMSINGS, n. Coarse flour, after the finest has 
 
 been worked out. Belg. temsen. Car.
 
 42 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 EIGH,'I ftf??;. Yes, pronounced ratlier like the Greek et 
 AYE, J than at, Eigh, used by Ch. in Tro. and Cress. 
 EIGH, (pronounced as a,) used interrogatively, and also 
 
 as an exclamation. 
 EKE, V, (generally used with the adv. out.) To prolong, 
 to make anything go far, that is, to use it in niodera- 
 . tion. A. S. eacan. Lat. augeo. 
 EKE, 71. The addition that is made to a bee-hive to en- 
 large it, synonymous with imp. Chaucer has the 
 word eeke, to add to. 
 ELDIN, n. Fuel, as of sticks or wood, to light the fire. 
 See elding in John,, Jam., Car. A. S. celed. 
 " Our eldin's diiveii and our har'st is ow'r." 
 
 Fergusson. 
 ELIVEN, a. Eleven. 
 
 ELLER, n. Alder. Lat. alnns. This word in some 
 counties is pronounced aller. Both forms are used in 
 W. and C. See Eller in Car. A. S. ellarn. Germ. 
 eller. 
 ELSIE, 2»'- n. AHce. 
 
 " And do you ken Elsie Marley, honey ?" 
 
 Eit son's Bishopric Garland, p. 47. 
 
 ELSEN, n. A cobbler's awl. Belg. elssen. See P. P. i, 
 
 p. 138, n. 3. 
 END-HECK, n. The moveable board at the end of a cart. 
 ENDWAYS, adv. Forward. 
 ENEUGH, adv. Enough. Used in the singular meaning, 
 
 only applied to quantity. W. and C. 
 ENEUGH,^ Enough. In a plural meaning, applied to 
 ENEW, / numbers. Car. 
 ENTRY, n. A narrow passage at the entrance of a house. 
 
 See John. 
 ESH, n. The ash tree. A. S. cesc. Germ, esche. 
 " The hie eschies soundis thare and liere." 
 
 D. V. 365. 
 
 Car., For. 
 
 ^
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 43 
 
 ESH-SIPLEN, n. A young ash. 
 ETTLE, V. To try in the best manner, 
 
 " If I but ettle at a sang." 
 
 A. Ramsay. 
 
 EVENDOON, adv. Right down : an evendoon wet day, 
 a very wet day, when there is no prospect of its 
 altering. 
 
 EXPECT, V. To suppose or beheve. Car., Wilb. 
 
 "pACED-CARD, n. A court-card. 
 
 FADDER, n. (pronounced /aMer), father. Car. 
 FADGE, V. AppKed to the walking of a child. 
 FADOME, n. Fathom. This form was in use in the time 
 
 of Queen Elizabeth. Ch., Sh. 
 FAIN, a. Glad, on or after some event ; desirous that 
 
 something particular may happen. A. S. fcegen. 
 
 Fayn used by Ch. Fayne by Sk. 
 
 The word is very frequently used by Shakspeure. 
 FAIRIN, n. Fairing, a present bought at a fair. See 
 
 Brand's Pop. Ant., 11,269,273. John. Fairiuff, u&ed 
 
 by Gay. Fairin, by Fergiisson. 
 FAIRISH, a. Tolerably good. Car. 
 FAIRLY, adv. Completely, 
 FAIRY-RINGS, n. Circles of green grass in pastures. Sh., 
 
 Tempest, v, i. Car. 
 FAL-LALS, n. Foolish ornaments in female dress. Jam., 
 
 For. 
 FAND, V. Fret, of find, 
 
 " Searcliing about on a ricb throne he f and" 
 
 Fairfax's Tasso. 
 " My ain judgment /awrf," 
 
 A. Ramsay's Gen. Sh. 
 FUND,^.2ja. of find.
 
 44 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 FAN-TECKLED, a. Having freckles ou the skin. See 
 
 Farntickles in Car. 
 FAR-A-WAY, adv. Much, a great deal. Car. 
 FARDEN, n. A farthing. Car. 
 FASH, V. To trouble, disturb. Car., W. and C. 
 FASH, n. Trouble. W. and C. 
 FASHIONS, a. See Wilb. 
 FASHEOUS, a. Troublesome, annoying, as, " he's 
 
 fasheous,'" "he's ti'oublesome." Bur., A. Ram. 
 FASSENS-EEN. The evening of Shrove Tuesday, the 
 
 day immediately preceding the great Fast during Lent. 
 
 See Brand's Pop. Ant. See Bur. fasten-een. Car., H. 
 
 FAT-HEN, n. A wild oraclie. Car. 
 
 FAUD, n. Fold. A. ^.falcBd. 
 
 FAUF, n. A fallow. 
 
 " The Lothian farmer he likes best 
 
 To be of good/awyA riggs possest." 
 
 A. Ramsay. 
 
 Car., Wilb. 
 FAUF, V. To fallow. Car. 
 
 I have deviated from the usual provincial orthography 
 of this word, in order to give the exact pronun- 
 ciation. 
 FAUN, p. 23a. Fallen. 
 
 FAUT, n. Fault. Used by Ch. Car., TV. and C. 
 FAVOUR, V. To resemble in personal appearance, as, "he 
 favours his mother." 
 
 " The porter owned that the gentleman /a»OMJ*e<? his master." 
 
 Spectator. 
 FAVOUR, n. Used by Sh. in the sense of features or 
 countenance. See Sh. Rich. II, act iv, sc. 1; Hen. IV, 
 Part I, act iii, sc. 2 ; Hen. V, act v, sc. 2 ; Julius Csesar, 
 
 act i, sc. 3 ; Sonnets, cxiii. 
 
 " My colour is changed since you saw me last, 
 My favour is banisht, my beauty is past." 
 
 Crown Garland of Golden Roses, Percy Society's Pub.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 45 
 
 This word is now never used in this sense as a noun. 
 
 See Favour in Ccw. H., Wilb. 
 FAWCETT, n. See Spigott and Fawcett. 
 FEAL, V. To hide. 
 
 " He thaAfeals can find.'' Prov. 
 
 Car., W. and C, Wil. 
 FEG, n. Fig. 
 FEG-BLUE, n. A composition, in the shape of a small 
 
 round cake, made of indigo, &c., used in washing 
 
 linen. 
 FELDEFARE, n. Fieldfare. See Hartshorne' s S. A. 
 FELL, n. A mountainous tract, as " Cockfield Fell," 
 
 "Middleton Fell," &c. Car., JV. and C. 
 FELL, V. To sew down the inside of a seam. Car., Jen. 
 FELL, V. To cut down timber, to knock down. 
 FELLON, n. A disease in cows, the primary symptom 
 
 being a bad cold. Car. 
 FELLY, n. Felloe, the circumference of a cart or carriage 
 
 wheel. A. '^.fcdge. 
 FELLY, V. To fallow. 
 FEMMER, a. Weak, feeble. 
 FEND, V. Applied to one who is industrious, or who exerts 
 
 himself in difficulties : to procure for. 
 
 " But gie them guid cow milk their fill, 
 Till they be fit io fend themsel." 
 
 Bur. Poor Mailie. 
 Car., H., Wilb. 
 FENDY, a. Industrious. W. and C. 
 FESTER, v.n. A wound is said to fester when it grows 
 
 virulent. 
 FETTLE, V. a. To prepare, to get ready, applied both to 
 persons and things. 
 
 Although this word was formerly used in a neuter 
 sense, it is now used only actively.
 
 46 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 This word occurs in the ballad of " Robin Hood and 
 
 Guj^ of Gisborne." P. R., i, p. 89, 1. 66. 
 See John., Jam., Car. (1), Hartshorne's S. A. H. 
 Lane, W. and C, Wilb. 
 
 FETTLE, n. Condition, repair, generally accompanied by 
 an epithet in melius. Used by Aseham in his Toxo- 
 pliilus. Car., H., Wilb. 
 
 FETTLED, p. pa. Prepared, repaired. Car. 
 
 FEW, a. When used singly, or with the article a, it de- 
 notes "a small quantity;" when used with the article, 
 and also an epithet, as, gay, good, &c., it then conveys 
 the meaning of "a tolerably large quantity." In 
 these senses the word may be considered a sort of 
 noun. It is also used adjectively, as " a few broth," 
 "a few sticks," &c. A. S./?a.' Car., For., Wilb. 
 
 FIDDLE-STICK, ^ An interjection, used when any one 
 
 FJDDLE-TE-DEE,J disbeheves what is said. 
 
 FIND, V. To find. 
 
 FIND, V. To find himself, to provide himself with. Car. 
 
 FIR-APPLE, n. The cone of the fir. 
 
 FIX-FAX, n. The tendon of the neck. Jam., Car. 
 
 FIZZ, V. n. To make a hissing sound. 
 
 FIZZLE, V. n. To make a slight rustling noise. W. and C. 
 
 FLAY, V. To frighten. Car., W. and C. 
 
 FLAYED, p. pa. Frightened. 
 
 " It's lang since sleeping was Jley^d frae me." 
 
 Scoti's P. W., ii, 58. 
 Sh., Wint. Tale, iv, 3, Car. 
 
 JFLANG, V. Fret, of fling. 
 
 tFLUNG, p. pa. of fling. 
 FLANNIN, n. Flannel. Car. 
 
 FLAY-CRAW, n. A scarecrow. Car. 
 
 This figure is usually formed of a coat stufiied with 
 
 straw, fastened on a stick, on the top of which a hat 
 
 is placed.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 47 
 
 FLEA-BITE, n. Used literally, and also to denote anything 
 
 trivial. 
 FLECKER, V. To flutter. 
 FLEE, n. A fly. Wilb. 
 FLEE, V. To fly. 
 FLEER, ^ 
 FLOTTR r^' ^^"^^^^ JV' and C, fleer. 
 
 FLEETS, n. Particles of smoke. 
 
 FLICK, /«. Flitch. A.^.flicce. Sk.wsesflijcke. Car., Lone. 
 
 FLIGG'J), p. pa. Fledged. '^ F%/ri and flown." Car. 
 
 FLIGGERS, n. Birds fledged and ready for flight. Car. Wilb. 
 
 FLING, V. To throw. 
 
 FLOUD, a. Afloud day, a tempestuous day. 
 
 FLUDE, )i. Flood. 
 
 FLIJDE-RAIL, n. A rail across a stream, swung on a cross 
 
 beam by two short chains. 
 FLYPE, n. A brim of a hat. Car. (I), W. and C. 
 FLYTE, V. To scold, to quarrel. See P. R., i, p. 208, 1. 9. 
 
 A. B.flitan. Jam., H., Car., TF. and C, Wilb. 
 FOALS-FOOT, n. The plant Timilayo farfara, Linn., for- 
 merly abounding in the fields near Newsham, called 
 
 Dormaloe banks. 
 FODDER, (pronounced /oMe?',) n. Food for cattle. A. S. 
 
 fodder. 
 FODDER, V. To feed cattle. 
 FOG, n. The grass grown after the hay is earned oft\ 
 
 John., Lane, Car. 
 FOISTY, a. Musty. 
 FOLLOW, V. To court. 
 FOLLY, n. The name given to a building standing oii an 
 
 eminence in order to command an extensive view, as 
 
 "Brussleton Folly," &c. 
 
 " The thin grey clouds wax dimly light 
 On lirusleton and Houghton height." 
 
 ScolVs Rokeby, Canto ii, 1. 
 Car.
 
 48 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 FOND, a. Having a love or liking for ; also, foolish, weak 
 
 in intellect. 
 
 The word occurs in a proclamation of the year 1533, 
 which prohibited "ybwii books, ballads, rhinies, and 
 other lewd treatises in the English tongue." See 
 Collier s Shaksjjeare, 1. 288. 
 
 In both senses the word is frequently used by Shaks. 
 
 " I am a very foolish, /owrf old man." 
 
 Sh., King Lear, iv, 7. 
 
 In this passage the word may probably mean doting, 
 loving. 
 FOOTING, n. To pay footing, that is, to give some treat, 
 
 as a new-comer does. Car. 
 FOOMART, n. A polecat. 
 
 The Acts of James 2nd, King of Scots, A. d. 1424, 
 regulate the export of " fowinartis skinnis, caUit 
 fithowis." The foumart appears, however, to be 
 distinct from the fitchew, as in the Boke of St. 
 Albans, among " bestys of the chace of the stynk- 
 ynge fewte," are named " the fuhnarde, the fyches, 
 &c., and the pulcatte." Harrison, speaking of in- 
 digenous animals, and the hunting of foxes and 
 badgers, observes, " I might here intreat largelie of 
 other vermine, as the polcat, miniuer, the weasell, 
 stote, fulmart, squirrill, fitchew, and such like." 
 Descr. of England, b. iii, c. 4. Isaac Walton 
 mentions " the fitchet, the fulimart, the polecat," 
 &c. Comp. Aug., i, c. 1. P. P., p. 182. See 
 Aschanis Toxophilus. Fomard in Car. Foomart 
 in Wilb. if.. Lane, W. and C. 
 FORCE, n. A waterfall, as " the High Force" in Teesdale. 
 Car.y W. and C. 
 
 In some places, as at Richmond in Yorkshire, a water- 
 fall is called a " Foss." This word is Norwegian. 
 Thus, near Bergen, there are the Voring Foss, the 
 Ekdals Foss.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 49 
 
 FORE, To the fore, alive, in being. "Is lie still tit 
 fore?'''' i. e. still in existence. 
 
 " For as lang's Sandy's to the/bre, 
 
 Ye never shall get Nausy." 
 
 Scornful Nansy, 1. 55. 
 FOKE-ELDER, n. Ancestor. Car. 
 
 FORE-END, n. Early part, front part. John., Car. 
 
 FORGIT, V. Forget. Car. 
 
 FORTHERLY, a. Early, as, "Sifortherly baytime." 
 
 FOX, V. To catcb fish by throvifing into the water coculiis 
 indicus. Foxa, IchL., to deceive. 
 
 FRA, 1 2)>'^P- From, (both forms used); jPrew usually with 
 
 FREV, / a word beginning with a vowel. Car. 
 
 FRAIL, n. A flail; the handle is called the handstaff ; the 
 thrashing part, the swoople, which is fastened to the 
 staff by capping or hooding. The swoople is generally 
 made of an ash-plant, taken up by the root, which 
 forms the extreme thrashing part. 
 
 "Tres tribulo partes, manutentum, cappa, flagellum." 
 Manutentum, a hand-staffe; cappa, a cape; flagellum, 
 a swewelle. See Pr. Pa. v. Fleyle sivyngyl. 
 
 FRAME, V. To set about any undertaking. " He frames 
 well." A. S. fremman. Car. (I), //. See Scotfs 
 
 P. jr., ii, 177. 
 
 FREET, V. To fret, lament. Car. 
 FREET, n. Fright. Car., W. and C. 
 FREETEN, v. To frighten. 
 
 FREMD, a. Strange, frequently applied to weather, as, 
 "afremd day," i.e. a stormy day. A. S. f reined. 
 GE^Tsi.fremd. Dvr. vreemd. ^ee Jam. in v. fremyf. 
 "And makes them fremd, who friends by nature are." 
 
 St/dnci/. 
 Car., W. and C. 
 
 FRESH, a. Well in health. " He's very fresh." Also 
 opposed to frosty, as, "a ?li\q fresh day," Sometimes 
 used in the sense of tipsy. Cur. (2). 
 
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 50 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 FRIDGE, V. To rub. Car., W. and C. 
 
 FRIND, n. Friend. Frinde is frequent in old English. 
 
 FROSK, n. Frog. Germ, frosch. Dan. frosk. Car., 
 
 TV. and C. 
 FRUGGEM, 71. A mop of rags to clean out the ashes from 
 
 brick ovens. 
 FRUMETY, n. Wheat boiled in milk, and seasoned and 
 
 sweetened. It is made of either wheat or barley. It 
 
 is used by all classes on Christmas Eve. 
 
 " Take a handful or two of the best and biggest wheat 
 you can get, boil it in a little milk like as frumitie 
 is boiled." — Walton s Angler. Car. 
 FULE, n. Fool. W. and C. 
 FULISH, a. Foolish. 
 FULLOCK, V. A term used among boys in playing at 
 
 marbles. It means an tmfair motion with the arm, 
 
 instead of projecting the marble with the fingers only. 
 
 Car., Hart. 
 FULLER'S EARTH, n. A sort of earth mixed with nitre, 
 
 which scours like soap. 
 FUR, n. A furrow. A. S. fur. Car. 
 FUZ-BALL, n. A fungus, which, when ripe, is full of a 
 
 fine brown dust. Lycoperdon bovista, Linn. Car., H. 
 
 Hart. Furze-ball is used by HerricJc. 
 FUZZY, a. Not firm in substance. See Jam., Car. 
 
 vJ' \ p7-et. 
 GAV, ) 
 
 of to give. Car. 
 
 GAB, n. A person who speaks fluently is said to have the 
 
 gift of the ffab. 
 GAE, V. To go. (Used occasionally.) 
 GAILY, adv. Tolerably well. "Aw's ffaily, thank you." 
 
 W. and C, Wilb.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 51 
 
 GAIN, a. Near. Used frequently in the comparative and 
 superlative degrees, as, "^f/mey way," " (/amestv,'a.y." 
 See Jam., gane (2), Car. (2), H., Lane. 
 
 GAIT, V. To set up sheaves of barley or oats to dry. The 
 sheaf is opened towards the bottom, both for drying it 
 and making it stand. It may, perhaps, be derived 
 from IcEL. gat, foramen; gat-a, i^erforare. Car. 
 
 GALLOWAY, n. A pony, or small horse. The origin of 
 this word is doubtful. BoHEM.^raZoa^a. ^QeJohn.,Jam. 
 
 GALLOWSES, ?«. Braces for holding up the breeches. See 
 Jam. Hart. 
 
 GAM, n. Game. 
 
 GAM, " To mak gam,'' to mock, to make sport of any one. 
 
 GAMASHERS, ?i. Gaiters, long or short. Fn. gamache. 
 W. and C. 
 
 V. To go. "Wilt thou gart?" A. S. gun. 
 Germ, gehen. Dan. gaa. Sw. ga. Icel. 
 ganga. Jam., Car., JF. and C. 
 
 GANE, p. pa. Gone. Car., JF. and C. 
 
 GANNER, n. Goer, as, " a. good ganner." 
 
 GANNIN,T ^ . ^ 
 
 GANGIN,^^-^""- ^°"^- Car. 
 
 GANTRY, n. A wooden stand for ale barrels. Car., II. 
 
 GARN, n. Yarn. A.^.gearn. Gerji., Dan., Sw., Icei.., 
 garn. 
 
 GARTH, n. A small iuclosure near a dwelling-house. 
 A. S. geard. Sw. gcerd. Wel. gardd. 
 CHURCH-GARTH, n. Churchyard~l 
 STAG-GARTH, n. Stackyard y""'- *^^^' ^'"'■• 
 
 GAT, V. pret. of got. 
 
 GATE, n. The privilege of pasturing one animal in a com- 
 mon field. Car. 
 
 GATE, n. Way, path. 
 
 " I'll ne'er advise my niece sac gray a gate." 
 
 Ramsay. 
 GAV, V. pret. of give. JF. and C. 
 
 GAN, 
 
 GANG,
 
 52 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 GAWVISON, 71. A simpleton. Car. 
 
 GAY, a. Considerable, in the sense of quantity, as, "& gay 
 while," i. e. a longish time; " a. gay bit," i. e. a great 
 bit. See Jam. Car. (2). 
 
 GEAR, n. Personal property, or wealth, k.^.geara. Car., 
 W. and C. 
 
 GEAR, V. To harness horses. Car. 
 
 GEARS, n. The trappings of draught horses. For., Her. 
 
 GEE, {g pronounced soft), A term used to a horse when 
 he is required to turn to the right. Car. (2). 
 
 GELD, a. Barren. Car. 
 
 GENTLE, a. Gentle and simple, i. e. rich and poor. Car. 
 
 GENTLE-FOLKS, n. pi. Persons of the upper classes. 
 See Quality. " Gent I e/ol^s will not care for the re- 
 mainder of a bottle of wine ; therefore, set a fresh 
 one before them." — Swift. 
 
 GEORDIE, ^. w. George. 
 
 GESLIN, n. Gosling. Car., H., Will. 
 
 GET, 71. Offspring. See Gitt in Car. 
 
 GETHER, V. To gather. Wid. in N. T. has geder. //., 
 W. and C. 
 
 GETTEN, p. pa. of got. 
 
 GEW-GAW, n. A musical instrument, called the Jew's 
 harp. See Gu-gaw, Pr. Par. i, 218. ,lohn. 
 
 GIB, n. A hook, as, "a gibby stick," i. e. a hooked stick. 
 Qu. Lat. yibbus. Car. 
 
 GIBRALTAR-ROCK, n. A kind of marbled sweetmeat, 
 made of brown sugar and flour, 
 
 GIE, V. To give. Ak., Car. 
 
 GIEN, p. pa. Given. 
 
 GIFTS, n. White spots on the finger-nails. See Car., II., 
 For. 
 
 GILDERT, n. A snare for catching small birds when snow 
 is on the ground. Strings are fastened on an iron 
 hoop, about two inches apart, other strings are fastened 
 in like manner, at right angles, to the former. Hair-
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 53 
 
 loops are tied on these strings. Crumbs are laid 
 
 under the gildert. In the Lane. Di. the word is 
 
 ffillet: See Beivick's Birds, v. i, p. 380. Ed. 182G. 
 GILL, n. A small ravine, with wooded sides, and a stream 
 
 running through it. Icel. ffill. Car., W. and C. 
 GILT, n. A spayed pig. A. S. ffilte. Car. 
 GIMLICK, n. A gimlet. 
 GIMMER, n. A female sheep, from one to two years old. 
 
 Jam., Car. 
 GIN, prep. If, against ; as, " against his return." (More 
 
 frequently used in the latter sense.) 
 GIRDLE, 71. An iron plate, of circular shape, which is 
 
 suspended by a handle over the fire : on this cakes 
 
 are baked, which are thence called ^«Vf//e cakes. Jam., 
 
 Car., W. and C. 
 GIRN, V. To grin. Gyrne used by Skel. Girn used by 
 
 Verstegan in the time of James I. Car., W. and C. 
 GIRSE, n. Grass. A. S. gcers. Germ., Icel. gras. 
 GIRSIN, n. A girsin field, i. e. a grassing field. See Ger- 
 
 sing in Car. W. and C. 
 GIRSLE, n. Gristle. Car. 
 GISS, A word, when repeated quickly, used to call swine 
 
 to approach. 
 GISSY, "1 n. Used by children, and also when pigs are 
 GISSY PIG, J spoken of to children. 
 GIT, V. Get. Car. 
 GIVE OVER Wr YE, i. e. cease. 
 GLAZEN, V. To glaze. Car. 
 GLAZENER, n. Glazier. Germ, glaser. Car. 
 GLEG, V. To squint. 
 GLENT, V. To quit suddenly the original direction, as a 
 
 ball impinging on a hard substance. Car. (2). 
 GLIB, a. Smooth. Jam. (I), Car. 
 GLIF, n. A transient view. John., Jam., Car., W. and C, 
 
 Wilb.
 
 04 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 GLISHY, a. Bright, as, "a glishy morning," which is 
 frequently the harbinger of a wet day. 
 
 GLORE, V. To gaze fixedly. The Scotch form is glower. 
 See Gloivr in John., Jam. Gloar in Car. See For., 
 W. and C. 
 
 GOB, n. The mouth. Car., For. 
 
 GOBBLE, V. To eat in a greedy manner. 
 
 GO-CART, n. A cart used in teaching children to walk. 
 
 GOCKS-BOBS, A familiar exclamation, used on occasions 
 of surprise or wonder. 
 
 In Chaucer we find the word Cockes Bones as the 
 corruption of a familiar oath, which appears undis- 
 guised in the form "Goddes Bones." — Cant. Tales, 
 12029. ''Gogs bones, I am well." — Beau. andFlet., 
 Monsieur Thomas, act iii, sc. 1. 
 
 GOD'S-PENNY, n. Earnest-money given to a servant who 
 engages to serve a master for a definite term, as a 
 year. It varies in amount from Is. upwards. If re- 
 turned before the service commences, it denotes that 
 the person hired has changed his (or her) mind. 
 
 " Then John he did him to record draw, 
 And John he cast him a god's petmie." 
 
 Heir of Linne, 1. 34; Per. Eel. ii, p. 136 (3 vols. 
 
 Loud. 1844). Car., H. 
 GOKE, n. The core of an apple. W. and C. (1). 
 GOOD-FOR-NOUGHT, n. A worthless person. 
 GOOD-LIKE, a. Handsome. Car. 
 GOOSEBERRY-FOOL, n. Gooseberries crushed and mixed 
 
 with cream and sugar. 
 GORBIN, n. Raw gorhin, an unfledged bird. 
 GORE, n. A triangular piece of cloth or linen stitched in 
 
 to enlarge any article of wearing apparel, to prevent 
 
 the seam being rent. Used by Chaucer. See Pr. 
 
 Par. i. 203, n. 4. Car.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 5,) 
 
 GOTHERLY, a. Sociable, familiar. 
 
 GOULDSPINK, n. Goldfinch. Cm: 
 
 GRAFT, n. The depth of a spade's bit in digging. Car. 
 
 GRAIN, n. The iron pi'ong of a fork. 
 
 GRAIN, n. The small branch of a tree. Dan., Sw. ffren. 
 IcEL. grein. See Jain. (1), Car., Hart. 
 
 GRAITH, V. To prepare, to put in a condition for use, as 
 tools, trappings, implements. W. and C. See Per. 
 Rel. ii, p. 18— Turnt. ofTott. 1. 57; Scott's Poetical 
 Works, i, p. 381. 
 
 GRAITHING, n. Equipment, implements, &c. A. S. 
 gercede. 
 
 GRAND, V. jiref. of grind. 
 
 GRANGE, n. Originally so called from the place where the 
 rents (paid in grain) to the monasteries were deposited : 
 it afterwards denoted a farmhouse ; and as such houses 
 generally stood at a distance from other habitations, it 
 became a term for any lone house. Low Lat. grangia. 
 
 " There, at the moated grange, resides 
 This dejected Mariana," 
 
 Sh., Measure for Measure, act iii, sc. i. 
 
 " This is Venice; 
 My house is not a grange." 
 
 Sh., Othello, act i, sc. i. 
 
 See Chalmers's Sh. viii, 419, note 8 (Ed. 1823); Co. 
 Litt. 5 a. Graionge in P. P. The word occurs in 
 Langton Grange, Blackwell Grange, &c. 
 GRANNIE, n. Grandmother. 
 
 " The gladness which dwells in their auld grannie's ee." 
 
 Scots Song. 
 Car. 
 GRAVE, V. To dig the ground. A. S. grafan.
 
 •56 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 GREAT, n. Intimate, familiar. 
 
 " The ladies arm-in-arm in clusters, 
 As great and gracious a' as sisters." 
 
 Buriis's Twa Dogs. 
 
 See Fullers TFo)'thies, Derbyshire, Nichols's Ed. 
 p. 259; John., Jam., Car. 
 GREE, V. To agree. It is found in this form in old 
 authors. 
 
 " The meane that grees with country musick best." 
 
 Greene's Farewell to Folly. 
 Car. 
 
 GREEDY-GUTS, n. A glutton. Car. 
 
 GRIME, n. A black mark caused by coal or soot. Germ. 
 
 grim. See John., H. 
 GRIME, V. To blacken with coal or soot. John. 
 GRIMY, a. Black with soot, &c. Car. 
 GRIP, n. A small open ditch in a field ; also the sunken 
 
 space behind the stalls in a cowhouse. A. S. grcBp. Her. 
 
 GRIP, V. To make an open ditch. Her. 
 
 GRIP, V. To seize anything with the hand. A. S. gripan. 
 
 GRIPE, n. A dungfork of three prongs. Car. 
 
 GROB, V. To dig in soil or mud, as children do. 
 
 GROOVE,! A 1 J • • 
 
 ^_,^.^,.^ Vn. A lead mine is sometimes caUed a aroove. 
 
 GRUIVE, J ^ 
 
 GROW-DAY, n. A term applied to a warm and somewhat 
 
 . moist day. 
 
 GRUND, V. To grind. Car. 
 
 GRUND, 2^. pa. of grind. 
 
 GRUND, n. The ground. A. S., Germ., Dan., ^w.grund. 
 
 Car., W. and C. 
 GRUNE, n. The snout of a swine. See Groon in Car.; 
 
 Groin in Brock. 
 
 In Norfolk, according io Forhy, a hog's snout is called 
 the grunny. See John.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 0/ 
 
 GKUNE, V. Applied to the noise made by a swirie. 
 GRUNSEL, n. Groundsel. 
 GRUNSTAN, n. Grindstone. 
 
 " Be to the poor like ony whunstane, 
 An' baud tlieii- noses to tlie grunstane." Burns. 
 
 Car. 
 GR'YAN, V. To groan. A. S. granian. Car. 
 GR'YAP, V. To grope. Car. 
 GR'YAV (grave), v'. To dig. Car. 
 
 GUDGEON, n. The iron arm at the extremities of an axle- 
 tree ; also the iron at the ends of a roller. Fr. youjoa. 
 Car. 
 GUISERS, n. Mell suppers, or harvest homes, are occa- 
 sions both of thanksgiving and rejoicing, to which 
 all who come are welcome. But it has always been 
 the custom that, for promoting greater mirth, some 
 neighbouring youths or maidens should array them- 
 selves in grotesque characters, and go to the supper ; 
 the longer the party is unrecognised, the greater their 
 merit, and the greater the sport. They are always 
 received with pleasure and a hearty welcome. See 
 Jam., Gysard. 
 GULLY, n. A large household knife for cutting bread, 
 cheese, &c. The word is used by liamsay. See 
 Ja7n.{\), IF. and C, Will. 
 GULLY-HOLE, n. A hole where gutters or drains empty 
 themselves into a greater channel or sewer. See Gate 
 in P. Par. i, 205. 
 GUSE, n. Goose. 
 GUSE, n. Goose, a familiar term for the heav^ iron used 
 
 by a tailor for pressing seams. 
 GUSSET, n. A piece of linen stitched into a shirt to 
 enlarge the opening at the armpit, the junction of the 
 sleeve and the body of the shirt ; it is cut out square, 
 
 3§
 
 58 TEESDA.LE GLOSSARY. 
 
 but M-hen in the shirt it appears to form a triangle. 
 
 Fr. gousset. 
 G'YAVEL-END, n. The gable-end. 
 G'YAVLIC, n. Gavelock, an iron bar, used as a lever. 
 
 TTA-HA \ n. k. sunk fence. This kind of boundary is 
 
 -*— *- said to have been first planned by a Stowe gardener, 
 Bridgeman, who destroyed walls, and let in views of 
 the country by means of this fosse, which, it is sup- 
 posed, obtained the name of ha! ha! from the sur- 
 prise expressed by the common people when they 
 found their progress unexpectedly checked by the 
 concealed barrier. — Baihj Neivs, Aug. 4, 1848. 
 
 HACK, n. An implement of two kinds : one is called a 
 pick, having one end pointed, and the other rather 
 broader. The other kind is called a mattock, one end 
 of which is axe-shaped, and the other end like the 
 broad end of the pick. A. S. haccan. Car., Will. 
 
 HACKED, a. A term applied to the hands when frost- 
 bitten, or to the heels or instep when very rough. 
 
 HACKONY, n. Hackney. 
 
 HAG, V. To hew, as with a hatchet. Car., JV. and C. 
 
 HAGGLE, V. To dispute in making a bargain. 
 
 HAG-WORM, n. A worm of a brown mottled colour, the 
 belly being lighter. It is about a foot in length, 
 and an inch in diameter. Car. 
 
 HA-LAG, When frequently repeated, is used to drive away 
 geese. 
 
 HALE (pronounced h'l/ul), a. Whole. Car., W. and C. 
 
 HALF-BACK, ~\ 
 
 HOP-BACK, 
 
 HECK-BACK, 
 
 Addressed to horses when they are re- 
 quired to turn to the left. See Hette, 
 Heck, Hauve in Car. 
 
 HALIDAY, n. Holiday. Car., 11.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 59 
 
 HALLAN, n. A projecting stone partition between the 
 door and fireplace of a cottage. See Jam. (1). 
 
 HALL-HOUSE, n. A gentleman's mansion. 
 
 HALVES. When among boys any one has suddenly found 
 anything, they cry halves, which raises a claim that 
 is or ought to be settled by priority, unless it be an- 
 ticipated by the finder exclaiming "no halves." This 
 custom is alluded to in Dr. John Savaffes Ilorace to 
 Scceva, Imitated. Ed. 1/30. London. 
 
 " Aud he who sees you stoop to th' ground, 
 Cries halves .' to eveiything you've found." 
 
 See Brockett. Car. 
 liAME (pronounced Kyam), n. Home. A. S. ham. 67/., 
 
 Car. 
 HANCKLE, V. To entangle. 
 HANCKLED, %!. jm. Entangled. 
 HANCLOUT, n. A coarse towel. Car. 
 HANDY, «. Expert, as, " a A«?i<^^y lad ;" convenient, as, 
 
 "it's laid handy." 
 HANK, n. A skein of thread or yarn ; also, a piece of rope 
 
 or cord. Icel. hanJe. 
 
 " Her hair in hanks o' gowden thread." 
 
 Scots Song. 
 
 HANK, IK To hank on, as a bridle on a hook. Car. 
 
 HANKUTCHER, n. Handkerchief. Li Shaks. we find 
 both handhercher and handher chief e. The two forms 
 were used indifferently in Skakspeare's time. Car. 
 % HANSEL, n. The first use or trial of any clothes, goods, 
 or chattels. It is used sometimes as a verb in the 
 same sense. It is so used by Defoe. It is but 
 seldom used in the sense of "earnest." See Hones 
 Year Book, pp. 954, 152G. 
 
 HAP, \n. A thick covering, as for a bed ; also for other 
 
 HAPPIN,J purposes. Jam.,Car., For., W. and C, Will.
 
 fiO TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 HAP, V. To cover with sufficient clothing, either in bed or 
 at other times. See More's Utojoia, 1551; Harts- 
 ho7'nes Met. Tales, p. 71; Paston Letters, iv, 91. 
 Jam., Car., H., For., W. and C, Will. 
 
 HARD-CORN, n. The name of v.heat or maslin, when 
 growing, as distinguished from barley and oats. 
 
 HARDEN, n. Coarse cloth. Car. 
 
 HARDEN-SAJEI^:, n. A sort of over-all frock worn by 
 countrymen employed in agriculture. See Wills and 
 Invent. Surtees Society's Pub. i, 268. Car. 
 
 HARDLINS, adv. Hardly. Car. 
 
 HARNISH, n. Harness. 
 
 HARNISH, V. To harness. Car. 
 
 HARRISH, V. To harass. 
 
 HARROW. "To live like a toad under a harrow,''^ is a 
 simile applied to persons who suffer from the ill- 
 treatment of others. 
 
 HAR-TREE, n. (fore and back). The vertical posts at the 
 two extremities of a gate. See Heart-tree, Art-tree. 
 Car. 
 
 HASH, a. Severe, harsh. Applied to a person who is 
 cruel; also to coarse weather. Ak., Car. 
 
 HASK, n. Harsh, rough. Car., H., W. and C. 
 
 HASSOCK, n. A cushion made of matting, for use in a 
 pew. 
 
 MASTER, n. A screen lined with tin, placed before the 
 fire when anything is roasting. See Hart., H. 
 
 HASTY-PUDDIN {h'yasty iMdin), n. Made of boiled 
 oatmeal. See Husty-poddish in Car. 
 
 HAT, V. j)ret. of hit. Car. 
 
 HATTER, V. To shake. 
 
 HAUD, V. To hold. 
 
 HAUDEN, p. pa. Held. "Thou was hauden just like 
 me," i. e. thou wert similarly unwell. 
 
 HAUD-FAST, n. Hold-fast.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 61 
 
 HAVER-CAKE, ?«. Oaten cake baked on a girdle. Germ. 
 hafer. DuT. haver. Car,, H., Lane. 
 
 HAVER-MEAL, n. Oatmeal. Car. 
 
 HAVER-STRE-A, ti. Oat straw. Car. 
 
 HAWPENNY, n. Halfpenny. Car., Wilb. 
 
 HAWPORTH, 71. Halfpennyworth. Cur., Wilb. 
 
 HAYMAKING, n. The gi-ass when cut is called a sweathe. 
 It is then strowed (strewed), and when tolerably 
 dry, it is turned, and, for greater security, over night 
 is made into wajopins (waps), ox foot-eocJcs. In the 
 morning the foot-cocks are dashed out; the grass 
 is afterwards turned, and towards evening made into 
 small cocks. These are broken out next morning, 
 and turning ensues during the day. Then winrow^ 
 are made, and siveeping follows. If the hay be suf- 
 ficiently di-y, it is at once stacked ; if not, it is first 
 made into pikes, and subsequently into stacks. The 
 hay in the stack generally sweats, and the top of the 
 stack is opened and laid out. In ten days or a fort- 
 night, the outside of the lower part is pulled and 
 skirted, and the upper part properly shaped and 
 thatched. 
 
 HEAD-RIG (Head-ridge), n. The outside ridge at right 
 angles to the ridges of the field, and which is ploughed 
 last of all. 
 
 HEAP, 71. " A hear} o' them," i. e. many of them. Car. 
 
 HEAR-TELL, v. To be informed of. In the passive, to 
 be reported of. 
 
 " Rob will be hanged, and disgrace a' his kindred, and that will be 
 seen and heard tell o'." 
 
 Rob Roy, Wav. Nov. vol. viii, p. 121, ed. 48 vols. 
 Jam. 
 HECK, n. The rack for holding the hay in a stall ; also, a 
 four-sided rack (raised some height from the ground)
 
 62 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 of wooden bars for holding straw in a fold-yard. A. S. 
 hcsca. Belg. hech. Car. 
 
 HECK-BERRY, n. The fruit of a wild shrub. The blossom 
 is white and clustering. The fruit is very small, and 
 of a dark colour. It is called by Car. and Wilb. 
 " the bird's cherry." See Car. under Egg-herry or 
 Hagherrij. Prunus Padtis, Linn. Will. 
 
 HECK-BOARD, n. The board at the end of a cart. 
 
 HECKLE, V. To dress flax. Teut. heckeUn. Car. 
 
 HECKLER, n. A dresser of flax. Car. 
 
 HECTOR, V. To be saucy, to bully. 
 
 HEDE-WARK, n. Headache. See P.P.\. 232. Car. 
 
 HEE, a. High. Car. 
 
 HEEM0ST,1 
 
 HE-IST J ^' ^^'§^^^^*^- ^*'*- 
 
 HEFT (Haft), n. The handle of a knife. A. S. hceft. 
 
 " His oily side devours witli blade and 7*e/?." 
 
 Waller. 
 Car.iV), H. 
 
 HEGG, V. To hegg on, excite. See H. pp. 18-2.5. A. S. 
 eggian. 
 
 HELL, V. To pour out a liquid from any vessel. Icel. 
 helle. Car., TV. and C. 
 
 Helle in Ak. is "to pour out of one vessel into 
 another." 
 
 HELTER, n. Halter. A. S. hcelffer. Car., W. andC. 
 
 HEMMEL, n. An erection on pillars, with wooden cross- 
 beams, so as to form a shed underneath, and made to 
 support corn or hay. See Hehn in Car. 
 
 HERE'S TI'YE. The "rustic form of drinking healths. 
 Car. 
 
 " Pisc. Well, then, here's to you, Coridon, and now for my song." 
 
 Walton's Angler, Part I, chap. xvi. 
 HERONSEW, n. A heron. Car. 
 HESP, n. Hasp. A. S. keeps. Car., W. and C.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 63 
 
 HET, a. Hot. JV. and C. 
 
 HET-FOOT-HET, CHIP UP HOLLOW, THEM 'AT CAN. 
 
 This is a phrase used by boys sliding on ice; supposed 
 to be corrupted from the French haut de pied, im- 
 mediately, in an instant. Foot-het, immediately. 
 
 Tooke. 
 
 " The maister hunt anon fote-hofe, 
 With his home blew three mote." 
 
 Chaucer's Dreme. 
 
 E vestigio is a well-known Latin phrase for confestim, 
 pi'operanter, &c. Analogous to this we find in »S/^. 
 Tim. of Athens, act i, sc. 1: 
 
 " Painter. "Wlien comes your book forth ? 
 Poet. Upon the heels of my presentment, Sir." 
 
 See John. Foot-hot. Jam. Fute-hate. 
 HEV, V. Have. Car., W. and C. 
 HEWLET, ^ 
 
 JINNY-HEWLET, /"' ^" °^^^- 
 HEZ, V. Has. See lies in Car., JV. and C. 
 HIDE, V. To beat. Cat:, JVilb. 
 HIDING, n. Beating. Car., TT'ilb. 
 HIE! DIDDLE DIDDLE. See HallkvelVs Nursery 
 
 Rhymes, p. 84. 
 HIGH-TIME, n. Quite time. 
 HIGHTY, n. A name used to and by children for a horse. 
 
 '^ Hiyhty cock horse to Banbury-cross." Car. 
 HIND, n. An upper farm servant. A. S. hine. 
 HINDER-END, n. Latter end. 
 HINDEIl-ENDS, n. The refuse of corn after it is winnowed. 
 
 Car. 
 HINDERSOME, a. Preventing, troublesome. 
 HING, V. Hang. H., IF. and C. 
 HINGINGS, n. Hangings. H. 
 HINMOST, rt. Hindmost, last.
 
 64 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 IIIPE, V. To tear, to gore, as cattle do each other with their 
 horns. See Hile in Her. 
 
 HIPPINS, ?«. The under clothes of a young infant. Car. (2), 
 H., Will. 
 
 HIKINGS, 11. The name of the market or fair at which 
 servants of both sexes assemble (generally at the 
 market-cross), to offer themselves to be hired. The 
 bargain is concluded by giving a god's-penny. 
 
 HIS-SELL,^jr. Himself. Car., Wilb. 
 
 HIT, V. To find, as, "to find a road." Car. 
 
 HITCH, V. To hop on one foot. ''Hitch, stride, and lope," 
 or, "hitch, step, and jump," is a sport among boys. 
 See Hop-stride and lonj) in Car. 
 
 HITCH-I-BEDS, n. A sport among girls, who bop on one 
 leg in a chalked space, and drive before them with the 
 foot a piece of earthenware. Sometimes called " Hop- 
 ^. score," H. Jh^^-^^ «' 
 
 mVIN, n. Ivy. 
 
 HOB, n. The hood-end. Car. 
 
 HOBBY, n. The name which a child uses for a goose; also, 
 when quickly repeated, it is used to call geese together, 
 as, for instance, homewards. 
 
 HOG, n. The name of a sheep from the time of its sepa- 
 ration from its mother till the time of its being shorn, 
 after which it is called a "gimmei'," or "wedder," 
 according to its sex. 
 
 HOGGERS, 11. Stockings with the feet cut off, worn as an 
 over-covering in winter. Jam. 
 
 HO-HOP, Used in calling horses to approach, 
 
 HOKE, V. To scoop a hole, as with a knife or spade. See 
 Howh in Will. 
 
 HOOD, n. A covering of black silk for the head, worn by 
 elderly females of the lower class, more especially at 
 funerals. Formerly in use in Scotland, 
 
 HOBBLE-DE-HOY, n. A lad approaching manhood. For
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 65 
 
 various conjectures as to the derivation of tLiis word 
 see For. p. IGO. See also Car. and Wilb. under 
 Hohhity-hoy. 
 
 HOLLIN, n. Holly. A. S. holegn. Car., H., Wilb. 
 
 HOLME, n. A low field, skirted by a river. This word 
 is frequently used for such lands skirting the Tees, 
 as above Barnard Castle, on the Yorkshire side. A. S. 
 holm. Car., JV. and C. Fr. Par. i, p. 243, n. 2. 
 
 HONEY, n. A term of endearment ; so used in the old 
 ballad, " The world's sweetheart." Roxburge Ballads, 
 p. 7. 
 
 HOOD-END, n. The horizontal flat sides of a fireplace, 
 either of stone or metal. See Hud in H., Will. 
 
 HOPPER, n. A basket in which the sower carries his seed; 
 also, the mill-hopper, in which the grain is put for 
 grinding. See Hopur in Pr. Par. 
 
 HOPPLE, n. The chain or rope which is used to tie to- 
 gether the legs of an animal. Sometimes the fore 
 legs are tied, and sometimes the two legs on the same 
 side. In the latter case the hopple is called a side- 
 lang. See Car., For., Her. 
 
 HOPPLE, V. To tie the legs together. 
 
 HOPiN-BOOK, 11. The first book for children, containing 
 the letters of the alphabet, of different sizes. The 
 book has no leaves, but consists merely of the two 
 backs. 
 
 HORN, 71. A domestic utensil for drinking. It is now 
 seldom met with, though occasionally in a hay-field, 
 or at a sheep-shearing. 
 
 HOTTER, V. To shake. Jam. 
 
 HOUSE, n. The family sitting-room ; still occasionally 
 used in this sense. See Car,, For., H. 
 
 HOUSEN, n. Houses. Ak., Her. 
 
 HOWL, «. Hollow. Car. 
 
 HOWLET, n. An owl. See Hoolet in Her.
 
 66 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 HOW- WAY, interj. Come away. 
 
 HOY-CART, n. A single-liorse cart. 
 
 HOWTHER, n. Rubbish, odds and ends, as of furniture, 
 
 &c. This word is occasionally met with in the higher 
 
 part of Teesdale. 
 HUFF'D,«.«a. Offended. 
 HUKE, «. A hook, a sickle for shearing. 
 HUKE, n. The hip-bone of a cow. 
 HULL, n. A ^i^-hull, a house for pigs ; probably froin the 
 
 A. S. helan. Car., H., Will. 
 HULL, V. To shut up in a hull, as, to hull geese. 
 HULY, a. Soon affected with cold, tender, weak. 
 HUMLOCK, n. Hemlock. 
 HUMMELD, n. A humtneld cow is one without horns. 
 
 Car. 
 HUND, n. Hound; nearly obsolete. I have heard it used 
 
 onlv in the singular number. 
 HUTIIER, n. A heap of stones or rubbish. 
 HUNTING-THE-HARE, n. A boyish pastime. 
 HUPE, n. Hoop. W. and C. 
 HURRY, n. This will not be done in dhurry, i. e. in good 
 
 time. See Her. 
 HUSH, w. To separate earthy particles from minerals by a 
 
 running stream. Car. 
 HUSY, a. Having a hoarseness, or continuous cough. 
 
 Germ, husten. 
 HUZ,^r. Us. Car. 
 HUZZIE, n. A term of disparagement applied to a young 
 
 female. Sc. hizzie. 
 HUZ-ZYF (Housewife), n. A case for needles and thread. 
 
 Car. 
 H'YAMS (Hames), n. Made of wood and plaited with iron, 
 
 which pass in a groove round the braffam, and con- 
 tain the crooks to which the cart shaft is attached. 
 
 See Ak., Car., Her., W. and C, Wilb.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAUY. 6/ 
 
 T This letter is often pronounced as ee; tlins^ night, 
 
 ^' neet ; right, feet, &c. 
 
 ICE-SHOCCLE, 71. An icicle. In old English, ihjU had, 
 
 by itself, been used in this sense ; apparently softened 
 
 from A. S. fficel. See D. V. 108, 30. 
 
 " But wi' poortitb, hearts het as a cinder, 
 Will cald as an iceshoyle turn." 
 
 Rev. J. Nicoh's Poems, ii, 158. 
 
 See Ikt/lin Pr.Par., Isechokill in Jam., Iceshackles 
 in Car. 
 IDDICATION, n. Education. 
 
 IMP, n. An addition to a beehive. A. S. impan. Car. 
 INKLING, 71. A shght hint, an intimation. See Skaks. 
 
 Henry VIII, ii, 1; Cor. i, 1. 
 
 " I have a secret to impart, 
 0' which, when I gie you an inkling, 
 It will set baith your lugs a tinkling." 
 
 Ramsay, The Three Bonnets, Canto iii. 
 
 INTACK, 71. A piece of ground inclosed or taken in from 
 
 a common. 
 
 This word is retained as the name of a field in the 
 vicinity of the village of Newsham, immediately 
 behind the blacksmith's shop. Car., H., Wilb. 
 ISE, y. I am, or I shall. "Aw's gannin ti wark." "Aw's 
 
 gan wi ye." 
 INTIV, 2^rep. Into; as, "he tumbled intiv a gutter." 
 IRON, 71. A domestic utensil; as, "a fiat i7-07i, a box i7'on," &e. 
 IRON, V. To smooth linen with an iro7i. 
 ISBELL, p. 71. Isabella. 
 
 IV,^ prep. In; as, "this apple grew iv our orchard," 
 I, J " this pear grew i my garden." Car. 
 IVVER, adv. Ever. W. and C. 
 IVVERY, a. Every. Car., W. and C. 
 IZZARD. The letter z.
 
 I 2^- "• John. 
 
 68 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 TACK, n. A small bowl thrown out for a mark to the 
 ^' bowlers. 
 
 JACK, 71. Black-jack, used for drawing beer into. 
 JACK, 
 JACKY, 
 JOHNNY, 
 JONY, 
 JACKALEGS, n. A pocket-knife, much prized by boys. 
 
 When a boy has a tumble from a horse, he is tauntingly 
 
 reproached with having got off to "take up V jaeka- 
 
 legsr 
 
 The word is supposed to be derived from Jacques de 
 Liege, the name of a famous cutler in that city. 
 See Jam. v.jocteleg. Car. 
 JACKANAPES, n. An impertinent boy, a coxcomb. 
 
 " How every jackanapes can strut, 
 Such coxcombs there are plenty; 
 But at the last in the prison shut, 
 So Mock-beggar Hall stands empty." 
 
 Mock-beggar's Hall, a ballad written in the 
 beginning of the 17th century. 
 
 See Jachanape, Shahs. Merry Wives of Windsor, i, 4, 
 
 ii, 3 ; Jackanapes, Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, 
 
 iv, 4 ; All's Well that Ends Well, iii, 5 ; Henry V, 
 
 V, 2 ; Cymbeline, ii, 1 . 
 
 JACKET, n, A short coat. The word sometimes denotes 
 
 a waistcoat. Fr. jaquette. 
 
 JACK-PLAIN, 71. The first plain used in smoothing wood. 
 
 JAG, The word is used by some old writers as a noun and 
 
 verb : it is not so used now, the participle passive 
 
 only being used. 
 
 JAGGED, J), pa. Applied to edges, uneven, or denticulated 
 
 irregularly. 
 JAISTERING, p. pr. Swaggering.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 69 
 
 JAM, n. The side post of a door. Fr. jambe. 
 JANNOCK, n. Used to denote behaviour that is all fair and 
 
 straightforward. Car. {2).y~ ie^-C^.^. ^ f *^- ■? — j-* - ^ 
 
 JANTY, a. Smart, showy. ... /^^^^^ ^»t^^^? -}k^^- ^{ 
 
 " What though they dress so fine and jantij." 
 
 Warton, Oxf. Newsm. Verses (17G0). 
 
 JARBLE, V. To wet. It is a custom with boys to turn up 
 
 their trousers at the ankles, to prevent them from being 
 
 Jar belled by the wet grass. TV. and C, Will. 
 JASEY, n. A sort of yarn of wool and lint ; an article not 
 
 much used now. The word is corrupted from jarsey 
 
 ov jersey. 
 
 " This lass she doth in Yorkshire live, 
 There in a town called Forset, 
 Her mind to labour she doth give, 
 She can knit silk or worsted. 
 
 'F *? *!- "I- 
 
 Sometimes she will upon me smile, 
 
 And sometimes she is sullen. 
 As she doth sit, and stockings knit, 
 Oi jarsey and of woollen." 
 
 The Merry Carelesse Lover — Evans's Old Ballads, 
 i, 179 (Ed. 1810). 
 
 JAIIP, V. To shake any liquid. It is used as a verb neuter 
 in the following passage : 
 
 " Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware 
 
 Th&tjaups in luggies." 
 
 Burns, ii, p. 39. 
 Used by G. D. Car. 
 
 JAW, n. Abusive language. 
 
 " But they garr'd the Featherstons hand their jaw." 
 
 Scott's P. IF. ii, 88. 
 
 JEE, interj. See Gee. 
 JEEST, n. A joist, a beam.
 
 70 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 JENNETON, n. A species of apple soon ripe. The deriva- 
 tion of the word from the apple being ripe and fit to 
 be eaten in June seems very improbable. A more 
 probable derivation is from the old French, genitin, a 
 kind of grape. See John, v. (/enithiff. " In July come 
 early pears and plumbs in fruit, ge^iitings and codlins." 
 Bacon . 
 
 JIBE, V. To mock, to deride. 
 
 JIFFY, n. A moment of time. Ak., Bar., Car. 
 
 JIG, 71. A light careless dance. Ital. giga. Fr. gigne. 
 
 JILL, n. A small measure, equal to half a pint. Car. 
 
 JIMMERS, n. Hinges. //., W. and C. 
 
 "The things of this world hang together by very weak 
 and slender ji?ntners." — Letter of Dr. Hen. More, 
 1G80. Life, ^-c, of Br. More, by Ward, p. 156. 
 See Jimmeis in Car. Gimmers in For. 
 
 JIMMY, a. Smart, spruce. Car. 
 
 JIMF'D IN, Applied to a female whose dress is tight 
 round the waist. 
 
 " And wha will lace mv middle jimp V 
 
 Old Ballad. 
 
 JINGLE, V. To make a noise, as by shaking together pieces 
 
 of silver coin. 
 JINNY-HOWLET, n. An owl. 
 JINNY-SPINNEU, n. A fly, with several long and slender 
 
 legs. Car. 
 JOGGLE, V. To shake, as if a schoolboy touches the elbow 
 
 of his neighbour w^hen writing. Teut. schochelen. 
 
 Car. 
 JOGGLY, adv. Unsteady. Car. 
 
 JOLLY, a. Applied to a person who is comely and some- 
 what fat. 
 JOSEPH, n. The name of a female riding-habit, which 
 
 ceased to be worn in the early part of this century. 
 
 "Olivia would be di'awn as an Amazon, sitting upon a
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 71 
 
 bank of flowers, drestina green Joseph, richly laced 
 with gold, and a whip in her Innd." — Goldsmith, 
 Vicai' of Wakefield, chap. xvi. 
 
 " And now my straggling locks adjusted, 
 And faithful _;ose^/« brush'd and dusted, 
 I sought, hut could not find, alas ! 
 Some consolation in the glass." 
 
 Mrs. Grant's Poems. 
 Car. 
 
 JOWL, n. The under part of the jaw, extending from the 
 ear to the chin. 
 
 K 
 
 AID (pronounced k'yad), n. A sheep louse. Jam. 
 
 KAIL-POT, n. A large metal pot used for boiling vegetables 
 
 or meat. Jam., Car. 
 KAME (pronounced h-'yam), n. A comb. 
 KAME, V. To comb. 
 
 " wha will /came my yellow hair 
 With a new-made silver kame ?" 
 
 Minst., S. B. 
 A. S. camb. Dan., Dut. Icain. See Car. v. kaam. 
 KATTY-KEYS, n. pi. The pods containing the seed of 
 
 the ash-tree. 
 KE, Quoth: "a spode (spade) ke quoth Peter Myers." 
 KEIGH, n. A key. See Keie, Kay, in Car. 
 KELK, n. A small species of hemlock. 
 KELK, n. A blow. Car., W. and C. 
 KELTER, n. A cant term for money. See Jam., Car. 
 KEN, V. (1). To see at a distance, to descry, to discern. 
 (2). To know. Germ, kennen. Car., W. and C. 
 
 (1). " The shepherd's swayne you cannot well ken, 
 But it be by his pride, from other men." 
 
 Spencer, Shep. Cal. Sept.
 
 72 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 " And far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs." 
 
 Shales., 2 Hen. VI., act iii, sc. 2. 
 
 " If thou ken'st from far 
 Among the Pleiads, a new-kindled star ; 
 'Tis she that shines in that propitious light." 
 
 Dry den. 
 
 " We ken them from afar, the setting sun 
 Plays on their shining arms." 
 
 Addison. 
 
 (2). " Fal. Which of you know Ford of this town ? 
 PiST. I ken the wight." 
 
 Shaks., Merry Wives of Windsor, act i, s. 3. 
 
 " 'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait." 
 
 Shaks., Troihis and Cresida, act iv, s. 5. 
 
 The word is also frequently used as a verb neuter. 
 
 " Now plain I ken whence love his rise begun." 
 
 Gay, Pastorals. 
 
 " For weel I ken I'll ne'er return." 
 
 Scotf, P. W., ii, 224. 
 
 '• Ken ye whare cleekie Murray's gane ?" 
 
 Jac. Relics. 
 
 The word has not now the old meanings of " to teach," 
 " to make known," "to direct," nor is it ever used 
 as a noun in the sense of "view," "reach of sight," 
 as it is found in Shaks. 2 Hen. IV, iv, 1 ; Cym- 
 beline, iii, 6; also in 3Iilio)is F. L., and in DrT/den. 
 ^ f n. Knowdedge of, as, "it is not within my 
 
 KENNING I ^^"■" "He isgrownoutofmy Z-e««%." 
 
 L ^^6 Car. V. kenning. 
 KEND, I V. Tret, of Ken. Both forms are used for the 
 KENT, J pret., and also the p. pa. See Jam. 
 KEN-SPECKLED, a. Having a singular appearance, so as 
 
 to be easily recognised and distinguished from others. 
 
 See Ken-specMe in Jam.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 73 
 
 KEP, V. To catch, as, "to catch a ball in the hand;" also, 
 
 " to kep water," applied to a vessel which receives rain 
 
 when it is falling, or water from a spout. See Ca?\ (2) . 
 
 A. S. cep-an, as well as Lat. cap-tare, and cap-ere, 
 
 seem to have the same general origin. Sibbald 
 
 mentions Teut. kejjp-en, captare. 
 
 " Kep me in your arms twa. 
 
 And latna ine fa' down." 
 
 Jam. Pop. Ball, xi, 4b. 
 
 " Mourn, Spring, thon darling of the year ! 
 Ilk cowslip cup shall l:ep a tear." 
 
 Burnn. 
 
 KESLOP, n. The stomach of a calf prepared for rennet. 
 
 A. S. cese-Jib. Germ, kase-lab. See Kislop in Jam. 
 
 W. and C. 
 
 p. 2)(i- Cast off, left off, as being done with ; 
 KEST, I applied to old garments. Used in a like 
 
 KAST, \ sense in S/iaks. As You Like It, act iii, s. 4, 
 
 KESSEN, 
 
 "A pair of casi lips of Diana." 
 This is the interpretation given by Theobald. 
 KEST, V. pret. of cast. Used in the sense of "threw 
 
 away," by Wiclijfe, Apol. for Lollards. W. and C. 
 KET, n. Filth, offal, carrion. Jam , Car., For., Will. 
 KEVEL, 71. A large hammer used in stone quarries. Will. 
 KIDNAPPERS, n. pd- A foolish practice formerly prevailed 
 
 of telling children, when behaving ill, that kidnappers 
 
 would come and take them away. //. 
 KILL, n. Kiln. See Jam., Car. 
 KIND, a. On very friendly terms. 
 KING-QOUGH, n. Hooping-cough Teut. kincken. 
 
 "It shall ne'er be said in our country 
 Thou dy'dst o'th' chin-couyh." 
 
 Beau, and Flet., Bonduca. 
 
 See Chin-cough in John, and Web. Kink-host in 
 Jam., Car. 
 
 4
 
 74 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 KINNLE, V. To bring forth young, applied to a rabbit. 
 
 Car., H. 
 KIRN, n. Churn. See Car. v. Kern. 
 KIRN, V. To churn. A. S. cernan. 
 KIRN-MILK, n. Churn-milk. 
 KIRSMAS, n. Christmas. See Kersmas, Kersen, and 
 
 Kirsen in Car. 
 KIRSEN, V. To christen. Dut. herstenen. See Jam., 
 
 W. and C. 
 KIRSNIN, n. Christening. 
 KIST, Ji. A chest : less frequently used than "chist." See 
 
 Jam., Car. 
 
 KITTY J ^^' ^' ^*^^^^*0P^^^- 
 
 KIT, n. A small wooden vessel with one or two ears. 
 
 A. S. kitte. Dut. kit. See Jam., Car., H., Will. 
 KITE, n. A plaything made of paper, the flying of which 
 
 in the air is a favorite pastime of boys. See Strutfs 
 
 Sj). and Pas. 
 KITH, n. "Kith and kin," friends and relations. See 
 
 P. Plough., fol. 85 a. 
 
 " At kitti or kin I need na speir, 
 An I saw ane-an-twenty, Tam." 
 
 Burns. 
 W. and C. See Kin in Bar. 
 
 KITTLE, V. Now apphed only to a cat's bringing forth 
 kittens. 
 
 " Gossype, when your catte hytelleth, 
 I pray you let me have a kytlynge." 
 
 Palsgrave. 
 Car. 
 
 KITTLIN, n. A kitten. 
 
 " And the brisk mouse may feast herself with crums, 
 Till that the green-eyed kitlin comes." 
 
 Herrick's Hesjjerides. 
 See Jatn., Car., TV. and C.,Wilh., P. P. v. Kytlinge.
 
 KITTLE, 
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. /O 
 
 KITTLE, r. To tickle. A. S. cltelan. Will. 
 
 KITTLED, i«-^#. and ^9. pa. of kittle. 
 
 ra. 1. Easily tickled. 2. Difficult, in a phy- 
 sical sense. 3. Difficult, nice, used in a 
 moral sense. 4. Uncertain, variable, and 
 
 KITTT ISH \ ^" ^^^^^ sense applied to the weather. 
 
 The first form of the adjective is most 
 
 frequently used, in the senses 2, 
 
 3, 4. See Jam. 
 KNACK, n. Habitual facility of doing anything. 
 
 " Knaves, who in full assemblies have the knack 
 Of turning truth to lies and white to black." 
 
 Dryden. 
 " The Dean was famous in his time. 
 And had a kind of knack at rhyme." 
 
 Swift. 
 
 KNACKERS, n. Two flat pieces of wood or bone, of unequal 
 length, one of which is held between the first and 
 second fingers, and the other between the second 
 and third fingers, and which are made to beat a tune. 
 They are a sort of rude castanets. I have heard this 
 plaything also in Loudon, where the name is clappers. 
 
 " The princes that war riche on raw 
 Gert nakers strike and trumpes blaw." 
 
 Minot's Poems. 
 Rifson thus defines this word : " Na/cers, Tymbals, a 
 species of martial music, adopted from the Saracens." 
 See Nacks in Car. 
 KNAP, n. A blow. Car. 
 KNARL, V. To gnaw. 
 
 KNAW, V. To know. A. S. cnawan. Car. 
 KNAWLEDGE, n. Knowledge. Car. 
 KNAWN, p. pa. Known. Car. 
 
 KNOCKLE DOWN, A cry among boys when playing at 
 marbles, the meaning of which is, that he whose 
 turn it is, is to shoot with his hand on the ground.
 
 7^ TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 and not from any height above the ground, a privilege 
 to which he is only entitled by having first cried out 
 " Please at you." See Knuckle-down in Bar. 
 
 KNODDEN, ^9, ^a. of knead, as, " hiodden-cake." Car. 
 
 KUllSIN'D, p. pa. Christened. So used by Jonso7i. 
 
 KYE, n. pi. Cows. See Jam., Car., H., W. and C. 
 
 KYLEY (Kyloe), m. The designation given to a small breed 
 of Scotch cattle. See Jam. v. Kyloe. 
 
 KYTE, n. The belly. 
 
 " Mony a weary day, but ne'er a fou kyte." 
 
 Scots Song. 
 See also Burns, ii, 38. Car. Will. v. Kite. 
 KYTLE, n. A loose, short coat, without laps, usually made 
 of "harden." Car. 
 
 X ABBER, V. To dabble in water, to wet. Jam. 
 
 LACE, V. To beat, to flog. Car., Will. 
 LACED, a. An epithet applied to tea which is mixed with 
 some kind of spirit. 
 " Mr. Nisby is of opinion that laced coffee is bad for 
 
 the head." — Spectator, No. 317. 
 " He is forced every morning to drink his dish of 
 coffee by itself, without the addition of the Spec- 
 tator, that used to be better than lace to it." — 
 Spectator, No. 488. 
 
 " If haply he the sect pursues, 
 That read and comment upon news ; 
 He takes up their mysterious face, 
 He drinks his coffee ^vithout lace." Prior. 
 
 Car. 
 LAD, n. A young man. Frequently applied to one in a 
 
 menial situation. See Ja7n. 
 
 Applied also to any one who is an adept in or very 
 fond of anything, as, " He's the lad for running."
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 77 
 
 LADE (pronounced Vyad), n. Load. Car. 
 
 LADE (pronounced Vyad), v. To load. Car. 
 
 LADE (pronounced Vyad), v. To throw out water, as, for 
 
 instance, "by means of a bowl or dish, the water which 
 
 a boat has taken in by leaking." 
 
 " He chides the sea that sunders him from them, 
 Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way." 
 
 Shak., 3 Hen. VI, iii, 2. 
 
 LAFE (pronounced Vyaf), n. Loaf. A. S. hlaf. Car. 
 LAKE, V. To play. Will. 
 
 "Haec vox in Septentrionali Anglise regioue, non in 
 aliis invaluit, quia Dani illam partem primam in- 
 Yaserunt, uni vel altero seculo, priusquam reliquam 
 Angliam subjugarunt." — Skinner. 
 See Car., H., TFilb., W. and C, Pr. Pa. v. lakyn. 
 LAKES, 71. Sports, games. 
 
 BABBY-LAKIN,} ''• ^ '^'^^^' V^^l^^^^^^- H., W. and C. 
 
 LANG, a. Long. A. S. lang. Car., W. and C. 
 
 LANG-SETTLE, n. A long wooden seat, having a back 
 and two arms. It is frequently made of carved black 
 oak. A. Si. lang and setl. Jatn., Car., H., Will., Nar. 
 
 LANT, n. Three-card hint, the game of loo. John., Jain. 
 
 L ANTED, a. Beaten in the game of lant. 
 
 LAP, V. Pret. of leap. 
 
 LAP, V. To -wrap. See Wlap in H., Lane. 
 
 LAP UP, v. To cease from any work. Car. 
 
 LAPSTONE, n. A large stone used by shoemakers. Car. 
 
 LARN, V. To learn. Car. 
 
 LARNIN, n. Learning. Car. 
 
 LASH-COMB, n. A large comb. Car., Jen. 
 
 LASS, 
 
 LASSIE,] ■^•^SW, a little lass. 
 
 Lass is sometimes used for a female menial servant. 
 Occasionally, to mark the inferiority of age more dc-
 
 78 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 terminately, bit is prefixed, as, " She's nobbut a bit 
 
 lass." 
 LAST, -JL Durability. Jam. 
 LAST-BAT, n. Wlieu boys leaving school separate for the 
 
 night, each is desirous of having the last-bat, that is, 
 
 of touching his comrades and running away. See 
 
 Tig (3) in Will. 
 LAT, n. Lath. Car., H., TFilb. 
 LATE (pronounced V]fat), a. Late. 
 LATE, V. To search. Ice. leita. 
 
 " The grete Godde for to layte, 
 Fiiide him whenne he may." 
 
 Thornton Romances (Camd. Soc. Pub.) 
 Sir Perceval, 1. 255. See Will. v. Leat. 
 The other meanings given by Willan are unknown in 
 this district. 
 LATHE (pronounced Vyathe), a. Loath. See Jam. v. 
 
 Laith, Car. v. Laithe. 
 LAVE, V. To throw out any liquid. The meaning is much 
 the same as that of "lade." 
 
 " A fourth with labour laves 
 
 Th' intruding seas, and waves ejects on waves." 
 
 Dryden. 
 LAW, a. Low. See Jam. 
 
 LAY, V. To bet. "I'll lay thee sixpence." 
 
 LAY-AWAY, V. To convert arable into grass land. See 
 
 Car. V. Lay-down. 
 LEAD, V. To carry, as, "He's leading stanes." It is 
 used, howevei', more frequently in a neutral sense for 
 the operation of carrying corn from the harvest field. 
 " They're leading to-day." Car, 
 LEADER, n. A tendon. Car. 
 LEARN, V. To teach. 
 
 " A thousand more mischances than this one 
 Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently." 
 
 Shaks., Two Gen. of Ver., v, 3.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. /V 
 
 LEATHER, v. To beat. Jam., Car. (1 .), Her., W. and C. 
 
 LEAZES, n. pi. A designation generally applied to gently 
 sloping fields. " Leswes or lesues is a Saxon word, 
 and signifieth pastures." Co. Lit. 4 b. ^y --'-:?-:.>'■' 
 
 LECK, V. To leak. Car. "^ 
 
 LEE, n. A lie. See Jam. v. Le. Car. 
 
 LEE, V. n. To lie. Car., W. and C. 
 
 LEE-AR, V. A liar. Jam., Car. 
 
 LEED, n. Lead. 
 
 LEEM, V. To separate easily from the husk. Jam. 
 
 LEBMER, n. A nut, perfectly ripe. 
 
 LEET, n. Light. Car. 
 
 LEET, a. Light. Car. 
 
 LEET, V. To leet on, to light on, to meet with. " Light 
 on" is used by Sjj., Shak., Bacon, Dryden, &c. " A 
 weaker man may sometimes light on notions which 
 have escaped a wiser." — Watts on the Mind. Car. 
 
 LEETNIN, n. Lightning : also, dawn of day. W. and C. 
 
 LEETS, n. pi. Lights, the lungs of animals. Car. 
 
 LEETSOME, a. Lightsome, luminous, cheerful. Car. 
 
 LEN, v. To lend. A. S. Icenan. Jam., Car. 
 
 LENNET, n. A hnnet. 
 
 LENTH, n. Length. Car. 
 
 LENTHEN, v. To lengthen. 
 
 LET WI'T, V. To make known. "Ye mun nivver let 
 wi't." 
 
 LIB, V. To emasculate. Dut. lubben. 
 
 " The bellowing bullock lib and goat." 
 
 Chapman, Hesiod (1618). 
 Jam., Car. 
 
 LICK, n. a blow. Car. 
 
 LICK, V. (1), To beat; (2), to overcome. Jam., Car., H. 
 
 LICKIN, n. A beating. Car., Lane. 
 
 LICKS, n. pi. Personal chastisement. Jam., Car.
 
 80 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 LIESTER, 71. A pronged and barbed instrument for striking 
 
 fish. See Will. v. Lister. Jam., Car. 
 LIESTER, V. To strike fisb witli a Hester. Jam. 
 LIEVE, adv. Willingly. "Action is death to some sort 
 
 of people, and they would as lieve hang as work." — 
 
 V Estrange. 
 LIEVER, adv. Rather, more willingly. Seldom used in 
 
 the comparative degree. Car. 
 LIGNY, n. A knor made of lignum vitce, for the game of 
 
 spell and knor. The surface is not smooth, but 
 
 carved, the lines crossing each other at right angles. 
 LIKE, a. Denoting obligation, as, " I's like to gan," i. e. 
 
 I must go. Car., Wilb. 
 LIKLY, a. Likely, promising well, as, "a liJdy foal. Car. 
 LIKLY, adv. Likely. 
 LICKLIER, More Ukely. Car. 
 LICKLIEST, Mosthkely. Car. 
 LIKNESS, n. Likeness. Car. 
 LIMMERS, n. jil- The shafts of a cart. Ice. lim, pi. 
 
 limar. Jam., Car. 
 LIN, a. Linen, as, "a lin sack." 
 LINE, n. Flax. 
 LING, n. The common heath plant. Ice, ling. Dan, 
 
 hjng. "Heath and ling and sedges." — Bacon. H., 
 
 W. and C, Lane. 
 LINGY (g soft), a. Limber. Car. 
 LINK-PIN, n. Linch-pin. For., Car. v. Lin-pin. 
 LISK, a. Active. Car., W. and C. 
 LISK, n. The groin, or flank. Dan,, Su, liusche. 
 LISTIN, n. The coloured edge of a woollen web. A, S, list. 
 
 Car. 
 LITHE, V. To lithe the pot — to mix the broth, when 
 boihng, with oatmeal or flour, so as to thicken it. 
 No whole grain is used, but a flour of corn, rice, &c,, 
 which is called tithing. See Jam. v. Lithe (2), Car., 
 
 Wilb.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 81 
 
 LITTLER, Less. Jam., Car. 
 LITTLEST, Least. Jam., Car. 
 
 " Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear." 
 
 Shak., Hamlet, iii, 2. 
 Car. 
 LIVER, V. To deliver. Car. 
 LOCK, n. "A lock of meal," a small quantity of meal. 
 
 See Jam., W. and C. 
 LOFT, n. A granary, a hayloft. 
 
 LONNIN, n. Lane. "It's a lang lonnin that has nivver 
 a turn." The Scotch form is "loaning." 
 
 " But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning." 
 
 Scott's P. W., iii, p. 335. 
 W. and C. 
 LOOK, V. To weed corn. Belg. loock. See Car. r. 
 
 Louk, Will. V. Laivk. ^'L >■ ^ < <^u^>i.y 
 
 , ,,   .. ,,, -^ ,/*<^ ^ tl* . 
 
 " Lowkyng my lord s corn xii«. 
 
 MSS. of Lord H. Clyfford, 1510. 
 
 LOP, n. A flea. A. S. loppe. Car., H., Will. 
 
 LOPE, n. A leap. Sc. hup. See Jam. 
 
 LOPE, V. To leap. //. See Car. v. Loup. 
 
 LOUND, a. Calm, sheltered, as, "a lound day," "a lound 
 
 seat." See Jam. v. Loim (1) and (2), also Lound. 
 
 W. and C. 
 LOUZE, V. n. To loose, to cease from work. "At our 
 
 schule we louze at 3 o'clock o' Thursdays." 
 LOW, n. Flame. Will. 
 LOW, V. An abreviation of " allow." 
 LOW, V. To blaze up. Car. Seldom used as a verb. 
 
 This term occurs in a Scotch proverb, often used by 
 economical housewives. 
 
 " There's little wisdom in his pow, 
 Wlia lights a candle at the low." 
 
 Matjne's Siller Gun., p. 73. 
 
 4§
 
 82 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 LOW, 
 LOBBY-LOW, 
 
 n. A flame or blaze. This is a term now 
 addressed only to children. Ice. loge. 
 Gkii. lohe. 
 
 " I would set that castle in a low." 
 
 Min. S. B. Scott's P. W., ii, 54. 
 
 Loio used by TFicUfe. Car. 
 LOWANCE, n. Allowance, a term for refreshment given 
 
 to labourers in hay-time and harvest. 
 LOWND, a. Sheltered. 
 
 LUG, V. To draw forcibly, to pull the hair. Car., Lane. 
 LUG, n. The ear. Car., II., IF. and C. Sc. lug. 
 LUGE, V. To lodge. 
 
 LUGING-HOUSE, n. Lodging-house. See Car. v. Ludging. 
 LUIK, V. To look. W. and C. 
 
 " The Queen hiikt owre the castle wa', 
 
 P. Pel., ii, 227. Youn(/ Waters, 1. 5. 
 
 LUIK, n. A look. 
 
 LUIKS, n. 2il. Countenance. " I dlnnot like his luiks:' 
 
 See Le^ik in Jam. 
 LUME, n. Loom. W. and C. 
 LUSTY, a. A term applied to a person who is fat. 
 L'YAM, Lame. Car. v. Laam. 
 L'YANELY, a. Lonely. 
 
 I^TACK, n. Sort, kind, fashion. "All macks," all sorts. 
 
 -^^ Car., W. and C, Will. 
 
 MACK, V. To make. Gee. machen. Car., H. 
 
 MACK NOR MELL. " I'll neither mack nor mell," i. e. 
 
 I'll not interfere. Shaks. Tro. and Cr. i, 1. Car. 
 MACK-SHIFT, n. A substitute in lieu of something better. 
 
 Car.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 83 
 
 MAD, a. Angry with, provoked. 
 
 MADDLE, V. To forget, to be confused in intellect. 
 Car. (1). 
 
 MADE (pronounced m'yad), v. Did make. 
 
 MAILIN, n. A bundle of rags fastened at tlie end of a 
 pole, to sweep the ashes out of a brick oven. 
 
 MAINS, n. Demesne lands : originally those lauds which 
 a lord of a manor had in his own hands, or which 
 were in the hands of his lessee. Some fields in the 
 vicinity of Barnard Castle are known by this name. 
 
 MAIST, a. Most. A. S. ^na^st. TK and C. ^^-^'^ 
 MAISTER, n. Master. A. S. tncester. Car., Her. 
 MAISTERMAN, n. Master, overlooker. Car. 
 MAISTLY, adv. Mostly, usuaUy. Her. 
 MALLY, p- n. Mary. 
 
 "Malli/'s meek, Mally's sweet, Mallt/'s modest and discreet." 
 
 Scots Song. 
 
 MAMMY, n. A child's name for mother. 
 
 MANG, n. A mash of bran ; being a mkture of barley or 
 
 oats ground with the husks. 
 MANNER, n. Manure. 
 MANNISH, V. To manage. Car. 
 
 MARE, a. and adv. More. A. S. mare. Car., W. and C. 
 MARGET, p. n. Margaret. 
 MARROW, V. To match. Car. 
 MARROWS, 71. pi. Two alike, fellows. "These gloves 
 
 are not marrows.^' Car., Will. 
 
 Used also in the singular number. 
 MARRY, A term of asseveration, in common use ; was 
 
 originally, in Popish times, a mode of swearing by 
 
 the Virgin Mary. Car.
 
 84 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 MARRY COME UP, An exclamation of disdainful sur- 
 prise. 
 
 MASS ELGIN, n. Maslin, a mixture of wheat and rye. 
 See John., Jam., Cai'. 
 
 MASTY, n. Mastiff. Car. 
 
 MAUuMY, a. Mellow. John., Jam. 
 
 MAUNDERING, a. Listless, idle. Car. 
 
 MAUT, n. Malt. Car. 
 
 MAW, jj/'. My. 
 
 MAW, V. To mow. Jam., W. and C. 
 
 MAW'D,! ^ „ 
 
 MEW, /i-^^-«f^^^- 
 
 " In simmer I maw'd my meadow." 
 
 Scots Song. 
 Car. 
 
 MAWK, n. Maggot. 
 
 MAWN, 2i- pa- of mow. Car. 
 
 MAWT, n. Malt. 
 
 MAY, n. The flower of the whitethorn. Ah., Car. 
 
 MAY-GEZZLIN, n. A foohsh person. See Br. Pop. Ant. 
 
 MAY-LAMB, 71. The name for a lamb, which is addressed 
 to, and used by, children. 
 
 MAY-POLE, n. A tall pole dressed up with flowers and 
 flags, round which villagers used to dance on the 1 st 
 of May. This festive custom is now obsolete in the 
 North of England. A maypole is still standing in 
 the village of Ovington. ^ee Hone's E. D. Ji., Brand's 
 Pop. Ant., i, 13.5; StriUt' s Queen IIoo IIaU,TF. Irving' s 
 Bracehrldge Hall, Mai/ Day. 
 
 MAZED, a. Bewildered. " She is moped and mazed ever 
 since her father's death." — Trt/cs of the Crusaders. 
 S/cel., Car. 
 
 MAZELIN, n. A half wit. TF. and C. 
 
 ME, jjr. Frequently used for I, as, "Wheah'l gan for t' 
 ball?" "J/e." Car.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 85 
 
 MEAL, n. Denotes the quantity of milk from a cow at 
 one milking; also, the time of milking. A. S. mcel. 
 
 " Each shepherd's daughter with her cleanly peale, 
 
 Was come a field to milk the morning's meale." 
 Car., For. B. J. Song. 
 
 MEBBY, ad. May be, perhaps. Car. 
 MEER, n. A mare. A. S. mcere. " Hes thou seen owt o' 
 
 maw meer ?'" Car., W. and C. 
 MEETY, a. Mighty. Car. 
 MELL, V. To meddle with (the prep, "with" being added). 
 
 Skel., Sj)., D. r. Bur., Car., W. and C, Will. 
 MELL, n. A wooden hammer, with a long handle. Lat. 
 
 malleus. Jam., Car., W. and C, Will. 
 MELL-S UPPER, n. The harvest-home, when there is 
 eating, drinking, and dancing at the master's house. 
 On these occasions sometimes may be heard the ap- 
 propriate old song of 
 
 " Aud sae ■will we yet." 
 
 See this song in Chambers's Scottish Songs, ii, p. 379. 
 Br. Fop. Ant. ii, 12, 18. 
 
 "The taber and the pipe, 
 
 The bagpipe and the crowde ; 
 When oates and rye were ripe, 
 
 Began to be alowde. 
 But till the harvest all was in, 
 The Moris-daunce did not begin." 
 
 Friar Bakon's Prophenie (Percy Soc. Pub.) 
 The wje^Z-supper is, in Craven, called the churn-supper. 
 MENDS, n. pi. Aiiiends. Jam., Car. 
 MENNOM, n. Minnow. 
 
 MENSE, n. Hospitality, good breeding. The noun is 
 seldom used. See Jam. v. Mensk (3), Car. v. Mence. 
 Will. 
 MENSEFUL, a. Becoming, decent, hospitable. See Jam. 
 Menksful (4), (5). Car. v. Menctful. W. and C.
 
 86 TEESDALE GLOSSAUY. 
 
 MERRY-NEET, n. A dance at Christmas time at a village 
 public-house. Car., Will. 
 
 MESSET, n. A small spaniel, or other kind of dog. 
 
 MEZZLES, n. pi. Measles. See Mesles in Car. 
 
 MEZZUR, 71. Measure. Car. v. Mesur. 
 
 MICH, a. Much. Car. 
 
 MICKLE, a. Much. A. S. micel. Ak., Car., TV. and C. 
 
 MICKLE OFF AT YAN, Much the same. 
 
 MIDDIN, n. A heap of dung or other refuse, as, "ass- 
 midden, m.ack-middeH," &c. A. S. midding. Car., 
 H., Lane, TF. and C, Will. 
 
 MIDDOW, n. Meadow. Car. v. Middaw. 
 
 MIDGE, n. A gnat. A. S. mi/ffe. H., W. and C. 
 
 MIDLIN, ado. (1) tolerably well. Car.; (2) ordinary, as 
 of a midlin size. "But ^nidlitC means "not in good 
 health." Her. 
 
 MIEL, p. n. Michael. 
 
 MILKER, n. A good milker, applied to a cow. Car. 
 
 MILKNESS, n. A general terra for dairy produce. Car. 
 
 MIM, a. Affectedly modest. Jam. 
 
 MINCH, V. To mince. 
 
 MINCH-PIE, ?i. Mince-pie. See Brand's P. A. i, 289. 
 
 MIND, V. (1) To be mindful of, to remember; as, " tnind 
 you come." Car. (2) To watch, to take care of; 
 as, " inind the house, the children." Her. 
 
 MISTETCHED, a. Applied to an animal, and more par- 
 ticulai'ly a horse or cow, that has contracted a bad 
 habit, either from being taught or from its own incli- 
 nation. Car. TV. and C. 
 
 The usual derivation is mis-teached. 
 
 MITTENS, n. pi. Gloves, without a separation for each 
 finger ; usually of woollen material, also of leather, 
 as, "hedging mittens.'" Fii. mitaine. Wilb. See 
 Mittans in Will.; My tens, in ' A Tale of King Edward 
 and the Shepherd.' — Hartshorne's Met. Tales.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAUY. 87 
 
 MIZZLE, n. A slight rain. W. and C. 
 
 The word is used sometimes as a verb. 
 MOB-CAP, n. A female's cap, with lappels to be tied 
 
 under the chin ; now nearly out of use. 
 MONY, a. Many. Jam., Car., W. and C, Wilh. 
 MONY A LANG DAY, Having/o/-or^A/* prefixed, means, 
 
 "for a long time past." Jam. 
 MINNIMINNY-MONIFEET, n. The centipede. Car. v. 
 
 Monnyfeet. 
 MOOR, n. An open common : the name is retained some- 
 times after the land is inclosed; as, "Dicky Moor, 
 Winston Moor,'" &c. 
 
 The word is also used for tracts of land covered 
 with heather. A. S. mor. TV. and C. 
 MOOT, V. To moult, to throw off the feathers. Teut. 
 
 muyten. 
 MOOTER, n. Multure, the toll of a mill. Lat. molo. 
 
 Jam. V. Multure. Car., Will. 
 MOOTER, V. To take multure, or the fee in kind, for 
 
 gi'inding corn. John., Car. 
 MORAL, n. Model, "a varry moral of a man." 
 MORN, n. To-morrow. Car. 
 MOTTY, n. A. mark used in the games of pitch-halfpenny 
 
 and quoits. Car. v. Motto. 
 MOUDIWARP, n. Mouldwarp, a mole. A. S. molde and 
 weorpan. 
 
 This word, with some slight variations, is used by 
 ancient writers, JVicliff'e, Spenser, Shakspeare, 
 &c. Car., Lane, W. and C. 
 MOUDY-HILL, n. The mould thrown up by a mole. 
 
 " lie lias pitched his sword in a moodieAviW." 
 
 Scoff's P. IF. iii, 75. 
 
 MOUNT, n. Stone steps near the door of a house to assist 
 a person in mounting a horse.
 
 88 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 MOW (pronounced moo), n. Corn piled up in a barn, or 
 on a heramel. A. S. mowe. Car. (1), TFilL 
 
 MOW, V. To have sexual intercourse with. Applied only 
 to the male of the human species. JT^ill. 
 
 MUCK, n. Dirt, dung. A. S. meox. Jam., Car., For., H. 
 
 MUCK, -I rv A- , , •^ r 
 MUCKY,/" ^^'^"'''°^°^^- ""'''■ 
 
 MUCK, 1 m 1 in 
 
 ' ^ ^J. To clean away. Jam., Car. 
 
 MUCK OUT,/ ^ 
 
 MUCKY, a. Dirty. 
 
 MUCK-DRAG, w. An implement with two or three iron 
 
 prongs at right angles to the handle, used for dragging 
 
 manure out of a cart. Car. 
 MUCK-MIDDEN, n. A dunghill. Car. 
 MUD, V. Might. 
 
 MUD, n. A short nail of iron or wood used by shoemakers. 
 MUFFETEE, n. A knit woollen covering for the wrist. 
 
 Car. 
 MUGWOOD, n. Mugwort, a herb. The plant is used 
 
 sometimes for making a sort of tea. A. S. mueg-wyrt. 
 MUMP, V. To strike on or about the mouth. 
 MUN, aux. V. Must. Car. 
 MUNE, n. Moon. W. and C. 
 MUNNOT, Must not. 
 MURL, V. To crumble away. Car. 
 MURN, V. To mourn ; used generally in a neuter sense. 
 
 A. S. murnan. Jam., Car. 
 MUSH, n. Applied to any substance worn down to a 
 
 powder or dust. Car. 
 MYSELL, pr. Myself. 
 
 " I'd rather far it had been mysell, 
 
 Than either him or thee." 
 
 Child Maurice. 
 
 Car., Wilb.
 
 N 
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 89 
 
 A, adv. No. 
 
 NAB, n. The abrupt termination of a hilly ridge. 
 
 NAFF, n. The nave of a wheel. Car. 
 
 NANE (pronounced riyan), n. None. 
 
 NANCY, -1 
 
 NANNY,/^''- ^- ^^^^^- 
 
 NANTLE, V. To be employed in an easy and careless 
 
 manner. 
 NARE, adv. and a. Near. Car. 
 NARE-SIDE, Near side. 
 
 NATHER, eo??/. and ;>?•. Neither. A. ^. natker. Car. 
 NATTY, a. Neat, tidy. Car. 
 NAUP, V. To strike in chastising. Car. 
 NEAR, a. Parsimonious. For., Her, 
 NEB, n. The bill of a bird ; the point of a pen. A. S. neb. 
 
 Shaks. Winter's Tale, i, 2. Jam. (2). Car., H., Will. 
 NEET, n. Night. Car., H., W. and C. 
 NEEZE, V. To sneeze. Found in this form in old editions 
 
 of tbe Bible.— 2 Eiuffs, iv, 35; Job, xli, 18. Car. 
 
 NEIF, 1 „. ^ 
 _-^.„ yn. Fist 
 NEAF 
 
 a 
 
 " Give me your neif, Monsieur Mustard Seed." 
 
 Sh. M. N. D. iv, 1. 
 
 See also Shaks. Hen. IV, Pai't II, act ii, sc. 4. Car., 
 W. and C. 
 NELSON'S BULLETS, «. pi. A sweetmeat in the shape 
 
 of small balls. 
 NETTING, 71. Soap and water mixed, and then made into 
 
 a lather ; used for washing prints aud coloured dresses. 
 NETTLED, a. Provoked. 
 NEYEL, V. To beat with the fist. Jam. (I). 
 NEW-FANGLED, a. A change in any particular thing, or 
 
 in the mode or method of doing any particular act or 
 
 thing. On trimming up what is usually called the
 
 90 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 
 
 " fore kitchen" in old farmhouses, and making it 
 into a smart parlour, the old wives would cry out 
 against such new-fangled ways and notions. 
 The word has also another meaning, as when applied to 
 a child who has got a new plaything, toy, or watch. 
 
 " At Chvistmas I no more desire a rose, 
 Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows ; 
 But like of each thing that in season gi'ows." 
 
 Shaks. Love' s Labour' s Lost, i, 1. 
 
 See also Sha/is. As You Like It, iv. 1. 
 "Those charities are not neio-fangled devices of yes- 
 terday, but are most of them as old as the reforma- 
 tion." — Atterhury. John., Will. 
 NEW-LAID, a. A grass field recently in tillage. 
 NEW-YEAR'S MORNING : There is a superstition that, 
 if the first person who comes to a house on this 
 morniug be a male, good luck will ensue during the 
 year. 
 NEW-YEAR'S GIFT, n. On New-year's day children of 
 both sexes, generally in groups, call at every house 
 where they are likely to receive a New-year's gift. 
 The salutation used is — "I wish you a happy new 
 year, please Avill you give me my New-year's gift?" 
 NIBS, n. -pi. The two handles of a scythe. See Snead in Ak. 
 NICELY, adv. Well in health. " Aw's jiicehj, thenk ye." 
 NINE-HOLES, n. 79^. A rustic game. Nine holes are made 
 in the ground in the form of a square. 
 A game under this name is alluded to by old writers. 
 See Drayton! s Muse's Elysium, vi ; Brand's F. Ant. 
 ii, 254. The modern game differs from that de- 
 scribed by Strutt under the same name. See 
 Strutfs Sp. and Past. For. 
 NIP, V. To pinch. 
 NIVVER, adv. Never. TF. and C. 
 NON, A word used by a person who has not heard dis-
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 91 
 
 tinctly what has been addressed to him. In some 
 places, nan, anon, anan, annan, are used in the same 
 sense. 
 
 In Cornwall, Dr. E. D. Clarke made some inquiries of 
 an old woman, whose abrupt and brief reply was — 
 "Nan.'" Dr. Clarke imagined she was calling out 
 to some woman of that name, and no one appearing, 
 he himself bawled out in a louder tone — "Nan." 
 It was afterwards explained to him that nan was a 
 contraction of «na?«, i. e. "what do you say?" — 
 Tour through England, by Dr. E. D. Clarke, p. 117. 
 See Bar., Bou., Car., For., Her., Jen., Wilb. 
 NOBBUT, adv. Only ; a contraction of none but. Car., 
 
 H., Wilb. 
 NOGGIN, 71. A small spirit measure. The word is used 
 
 in the Dales principally. 
 NON-PLUSH, n. A dilemma. 
 NONSUCH, n. An apple so called. 
 
 NOR, conj. Than; as, "thou's bigger nor\nm.." Car., H. 
 NORRARD, adv. Northward. 
 NOWT, n. Nothing. Car., W. and C. 
 NOWT, n. Cattle. The word is now seldom used. "Nowt 
 Fair" is held at Darlington on the first Monday in 
 March. W. and C. 
 NOWTHER, conj. and pr. Neither. A. S. nouther. 
 Nouther is used by TVicliffe and Minot. Car., 
 W. and C. 
 
 ^r^rTrr'T^T f^- Nook, comer. Car., W. and C. 
 NUIKIN, J 
 
 NUIN, 1 „ 
 
 NIJNE, J ''■ ^°°"- 
 
 NUT, adv. Not. Car. 
 
 NUT-CRACK NEET : Nut-crack night, Allhallows Eve. 
 
 It used to be the custom to reserve some nuts for this 
 
 night. Brand's Pop. Ant. i, 209.
 
 92 TEESDALE GLOSSAEY. 
 
 DMENTS, 1 n. pi. Scraps, fragments. Jam. 
 
 S A 
 
 '\adv. Often. 
 
 DMENTS, -1 
 
 ODDS AND ENDS,; Car., W. and C 
 OFFENS, 
 OFTENS 
 
 OFTER, adv. More frequently. Car. 
 OLD-PEG, n. Old milk cheese. Car. 
 ON, 2)rep- Of. "They mak a deal on him." Car. 
 ONY, a. Any. Car. 
 ONYHOW, At all events. 
 OURSELLS, p)r. Ourselves. 
 OUSEN, M.jj^. Oxen. Bur., Car. 
 OUTHER, pr. and adv. Either. 
 
 " On a' the Nith there's nae sic smith 
 
 For shoeing outlier naig or gelding." 
 
 Scots Rhyme. 
 
 " An' he has warn'd her sisters six, 
 An' sae has he her brethren se'en, 
 Outlier to watch her a' the niglit, 
 Or else to seek her morn and e'en," 
 
 Scotfs P. W. ii, p. 353. 
 Car., W. and C. 
 OVER : To give over, means "to cease from." 
 OWE, V. "Whose owe it?" i. e. who owns it? 
 
 The meaning of this verb, namely, to possess, to be 
 the right owner of, is now obsolete, except in pro- 
 vincial phraseology, and in place of it we now use 
 own. See Shaks. Rich. Ill, iv, 4 ; Temp, i, 2; Othello, 
 iii, 3; Sonnets, Ixx, 1. 14. 
 The use of the word in this sense is not peculiar to 
 Shakspeare, but is very common in all the old 
 writers. See Beaumont and Fletchers Beggar's 
 Bush, ii, 1 . Car. 
 OWER, prep, and adv. Over, "Ower mony," too many. 
 
 A. S. ofer. 
 OWER-TUNE, n. The burden of a song, corresponding to 
 owerword in a Scotch ballad.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 93 
 
 OXTER, n. The armpit. A. S. oxfa. 
 
 "Four inch aneath his o.rfer is the mark, 
 Scarce ever seen since he first wore a sark." 
 
 Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd. 
 Car. 
 
 >ACK, n. A pedlar's bundle. 
 
 PADDOCK, n. A small field, of one or two acres, imme- 
 diately adjoining a cottage. Will. 
 
 PALM SUNDAY, n. The Sunday next before Easter Day. 
 It is still a custom on this day to gather palms, the 
 blossoms of the willow. See Hones E. B. B. i, 391. 
 
 PALMS, n. pi. The blossoms of the female willow. Car., 
 Wilb. 
 
 PAN, V. n. To agree, to correspond with. There is a 
 proverb, 
 
 " Weel and woman cannot ^«w, 
 But woe and woman can." 
 
 Ritson's Letters, cxvii, ad fiii. 
 
 " For say and promeis quhat they can, 
 Their wordes and deides will wevev jian." 
 
 Maitland's Poems, p. 220. 
 Car., JVm. 
 
 PANCAKE-TUESDAY, n. Shrove Tuesday, on which day 
 pancakes are eaten for dinner. See Hones E. D. B. 
 i, 246 ; Brand's Pop. Ant. i, 3G. Car. 
 
 PAPISH, n. A Papist. 
 
 PARFIT, a. Perfect. Ch., Car. 
 
 PARLISH, a. Dangerous. W. and C. 
 
 PASH, n. " Thunner-^Jtts/i," a heavy fall of rain, accom- 
 panied with thunder. 
 
 PASS, n. Condition. 
 
 PASTE-EGG DAY, n. Easter Sunday. See BramFs Pop. 
 Ant. i, 137.
 
 94 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 PASTE-EGGS, ?«. pi. Eggs boiled very hard, and at the 
 same time dj^ed in various colours, by logwood, M'hin 
 flowers, &c. They are given to children, and thrown 
 by them on Easter Sunday in the fields. Dan. 
 paasJie egcj. See Brand's Pop. Ant. i, 142; Hone's 
 E. D. B. i, 426; Brack/ s Clavis Calendaria, i, 261. 
 See an article on "The Paschal Egg," by J. H. Dixon, 
 Esq. in Richardson s Table Book (Legendary Division), 
 ii, 261. Jam. v. Pays-eggs. 
 
 PAT, a. Perfect, ready. Car. 
 
 PAT, V. Did put. 
 
 PAUKY, a. Difficult to please ; a word applied to children. 
 In Will, the meaning is different. 
 
 PAUT, V. Applied to a horse striking the ground with 
 his fore foot. Jam. 
 
 PAUTRICK, n. Partridge. Sc. paitricTi. This word is 
 almost obsolete. 
 
 PAY, V. To beat. "Aw'l pay thy jacket." Car., For., H. 
 
 PAZE, V. To raise up as with a lever. The original mean- 
 ing of this verb was "to balance, to weigh," and is so 
 used by old writers. ShaJis. Merchant of Venice, 
 iii, 2 ; Richard III, v, .3. See dial. S/taks. iii, 50, 
 vi, 124 ; Malone's Shaks. v. 79. John. v. Peise. 
 
 PEA-SWAD, n. Peascod. 
 
 PEENGING, p. pr. Whining. 
 
 PEER, n. A pear. 
 
 PEE-WIT, n. The lapwing. 
 
 •^^^' , 1 pr. n. Margaret. 
 PEGGY,/^ 
 
 PEG-TANKARD, n. A tankard formerly very common, 
 but now very scarce. Hone's Y. i>. 481; Gent's 
 Mag. vol. 26, New Series, 409. 
 PEG-TOP, n. A top that spins on an iron point, as dis- 
 tinguished from a humming-top. 
 PELLET, n. A round substance of stone or iron. Throwing
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 95 
 
 tlie pellet was a pastime in my recollection ; the same, 
 perhaps, as what is designated "Long Bullets" by 
 Brand. See Pop. Ant. ii, 242. 
 
 Throwing the pellet is probably the pastime called 
 "throwing of stones," which, with several others, 
 was prohibited by proclamation in the reign of 
 Edward III. See Strutfs Sp. and Past., p. 43 
 (4 to edition, 1810). 
 PEN-FEATHER, n. A feather that has not arrived at 
 
 maturity, and has the quill bloody and unripe. 
 PENA'ORTH, n. Pennyworth. 
 PETIIER, n. A pedlar. 
 
 Abroad, they deem tradesmen such only as carry 
 goods about from market to market, or from house 
 to house, to sell, which we usually here call "petty 
 chapmen," in the North, pethers, and in our or- 
 dinary speech, "pedlars." — Be Foes Complete 
 English Tradesman. Published a.d. 1/45. 
 PEWDER, n. Pewter. 
 PEZ, n. pi. Peas. 
 
 PIAT, '] n. Magpie. There are certain superstitions 
 
 PIANNET,/ connected with the appearance of this bird. 
 If a magpie crosses the path of any one, it is usual to 
 make the sign of a cross on the ground. The fol- 
 lowing lines are well known, and are invariably 
 repeated when these birds of portentous omen ap- 
 pear : 
 
 " One's sorrow, 
 Two's good luck, 
 Three's a wedding, 
 Four's death." 
 
 Jam. V. Pyat. Car., IF. and C, Wilb., Will. 
 PICK, n. An agricultural implement. 
 PICK, n. The diamond in a pack of cards. H., TV. andC.
 
 96 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 PICK, n. Pitch. " As dark as inch," i. e. very dark. 
 
 A. S. j>(!'e. Jam., W. and C. 
 PICK, V. To push, to throw down. //. (1). 
 PICK-FORK, n. Pitchfork, a small fork for a stable or 
 
 hayloft. This word occurs iu the Bible, edition 1608. 
 
 1 Sam. xiii, 21, 
 PIG OF LEAD, n. A piece of lead of an oblong shape, 
 
 from eight to twelve stone in weight. 
 
 " A nodding beam ox pig of lead, 
 
 May hurt the very ablest head." 
 
 Pope. 
 Car. 
 
 PIKE, 71. A large pile of hay, in size, between a cock and 
 
 a stack, and made near a stack. Car. 
 PILLOW-SLIP, 71. The covering of a pillow. Car. 
 PINCHERS, n. pi. Pincers. 
 PIPE-STOPPEL, 11. Part of the shank of a pipe. 
 PIPPEN, n. Pip, the seed of an apple, &c. Car. 
 PISSYMOOR, n. Pismire. 
 PITCH-HALFPENNY, n. A rural pastime, corresponding 
 
 nearly with that described under the term " pitch and 
 
 hustle." Stnitfs S2). and Past. 
 PLAT, COWPLAT, n. Cow-dung. 
 PLEAN, V. To complain. Fr. 'pla'mdre. Shaks. King 
 
 Lear, iii, 1. Car., Will. 
 PLEANING, 2). pr. Complaining. T7\ and C. 
 PLENNET, a. Planet. When rain falls partially, it is said 
 
 to "fall in plemiets." 
 PLET, V. To plat, as to plat silk, hair, rushes. 
 
 " For thee I plet the flowery belt and snood." 
 
 Ramsm/s Gentle Shepherd. 
 
 PLET, n. Three-plet, a three-fold plat. 
 PLETTED, p. pa. of Plet. 
 
 PLEUF 1 
 
 'In. A plough. Germ, pfiiff. W. and C.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 97 
 
 PLEW, V. To plough. 
 PLIZZER, n. Pleasure. 
 
 PLOTE, V. To pull oflf feathers, as off a fowl. JF. mid C. 
 PLOUGHING-DAY, n. When a farmer enters upon a new 
 farm he generally requires assistance in ploughing his 
 land. He therefoi-e invites his neighbours to assist 
 him with a drauglit of horses on a specified day, when 
 a good dinner is prepared of beef, dumplings, and ale. 
 In Lancashire, the term is " boon-jjloiighing ." See 
 Ho7ie's Year Book, p. 59. 
 PLUCK, n. Heart, liver, and lungs of an animal. 
 PLUM, a. Perpendicular. Car. 
 PLUM, V. To sound the depth of water, &c. 
 POCK-ARD, a. Marked with the smallpox. Car. 
 PODDISH, n. Porridge. W. imd C. 
 POINT, n. The ornamented part of a stocking extending 
 
 above the ankle. 
 POINT-VICE, a. Exact, perfect. The term is applied to 
 any one who is neat and nice in person. Point de- 
 vice is used by Shaks. See Twelfth Night, ii, .5 ; Love's 
 Labour Lost, v, 1; As You Like It, iii, 2. 
 "Men's behaviour should be like their apparel, not 
 too straight ov j^oiiit devise, but free for exercise." 
 — Bacon. See also Draytons Bohjolhion, S. 15. 
 Skel. poynte devyse. See Giford's Note to Ben 
 Jonson, iv, 169. (Ed. 1816, 9 vols.) 
 POKE, «. A sack, a bag. A. 8. jaocca. Dvr. pak. Icel. 
 poki. 
 
 " To buy a pig in a poke'" is said of one who buys any- 
 thing without having first seen and examined it. 
 Car., n., W. and C. Will. v. Poak. 
 FINGER-POKE, n. A covering, usually made of a 
 glove-finger, for a wounded finger. 
 POOL, V. To pull. Car. 
 
 5
 
 98 TEESDALE GLOSSAEY. 
 
 POORLY, adv. lu bad health. Car, 
 
 FOOTS, n. pJ. The young of moor-fowl. Jam., Car. 
 
 PORE, n. Fire-poker. 
 
 PORTMANTLE, n. Portmanteau. Car. 
 
 POSH, V. To posh the fire, to stir it violently. 
 
 POSY, n. A single flower, also a nosegay. This word is 
 found in Spenser. It is used as "nosegay" by Sivift. 
 
 POSS, V. Some kinds of linen are washed by beating 
 (possmff) them in a tub. The wooden instrument 
 used for the purpose, and adapted for the two hands, 
 is called a po.s5i??^-staff. See Jam. v. Pouss and 
 Poss. 
 
 " 'Tis strange the good old fashion should have fled, 
 When double-girded 7Jos««H^-tubs were made." 
 
 Villacfe Fair (Blackwood's Mag., Jan. 1821, p. 432). 
 
 POTATO-GUN, n. A plaything among boys, formed of 
 a quill open at each end, and a ramrod. A potato, 
 cut into thin slices, and forced through the quill, forms 
 the charge. See Jam. v. Pen-gioi ; also Blackioood' s 
 Mag. Aug. 1821, p. 35. 
 
 POTATO-PIT, n. A conical heap of potatoes covered with 
 earth. 
 
 POT-IIOOKS, n. pi. The curved lines which a child is 
 taught to make in learning to write. Car. 
 
 POUTIIER, 71. Powder. Jam. 
 
 POWNY, n. Pony. 
 
 PRATTY, a. Pretty. 
 
 "Tlie Bishop of Duresme hath a pratty palace in the towne." 
 
 Lclaud's Kin. p. 74. 
 Ske. 
 
 PRENT, n. Print, as of a book ; a hutter -pretit, a small 
 piece of butter in a circular form, having some pattern 
 or device on it. W. and C. 
 
 PRENTICE, n. Apprentice. Car.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 99 
 
 PRICKER, n. A bradawl. * 
 
 PRICKY-LOUSE, n. A contemptuous term applied to a 
 tailor. 
 
 " The pric/c-louse taj'lor he came in, 
 Whose tongue did run so nimble, 
 And said he would engage for drink 
 His bodkin and his thimble." 
 The Good Fellows' Frolick (Evans's Old Ballads, vol. i, p. 162, 
 
 Ed. 1810). 
 PRISE, V. To force open, as by a lever. Jam.^ Car. v. 
 
 Prize. 
 PRISONERS-BASE, n. A boyish pastime. 
 
 " So ran they all as they had been at 6ase, 
 They being chased that did others chase." 
 
 Spenser's Fairy Queen. 
 
 Sha/cs. Cymb. v, 3 ; Two Gent, of Ver. i, 2 ; and see 
 
 Note by Malone (Shaks. vol. iv, p. 23, Ed. 1821). 
 
 Strutfs Sp. and Past. p. 71. 
 PROD, n. A goad. Dan. brod. Jam., Car. 
 PROD, V. To goad. 
 PROSS, n. Familiar conversation. 
 PUDDINS, n. pi. The intestines. H. 
 PUKE, n. An emetic. H. 
 PULE, H. A pool. A. ^. ijol. JixiT.poel. J)k^. p6el. 
 
 TV. and C. 
 PULTRY, n. Poultry. 
 PUND, n. Pound. A. S. pund. 
 PUNCH, n. A kick. 
 PUNCH, V. To kick. 
 
 PUN-FAUD, n. A pin-fold. A. ^.pyndan and/«/<^f7. 
 PUT-ABOUT, V. To vex, to annoy. Her. 
 PUT-ABOUT, p. pa. Vexed, annoyed.
 
 100 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 a 
 
 UALITY, n. vA term used to designate tlie nobility 
 
 and gentry. 
 
 " I shall apjoear at the masquerade dressed up in my 
 feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they 
 will look in their travelling habits," — Addison, 
 Guardian. 
 
 " Of all the servile herd, the worst is he, 
 
 That iu proud dulness joins with quality." 
 
 Pope. 
 
 " To quality belongs the highest place, 
 
 My lord comes forward ; forward let him come !" 
 
 Young. 
 
 " If lovely Rachel can approve 
 
 A lover lyke to mee. 
 She to a stately hall shall move, 
 
 And dwell with qualytie." 
 The Matchless Mayde of Morpeth, by G. S. Carey, st. 34 
 
 (Richardson's Table Book, Leg. Div. ii, 47). 
 
 QUARTER-ILL, n. A disease to which calves of about a 
 year old are subject. It is considered incurable. 
 
 *' Sic benison will sair ye still, — 
 Frae cantrip, elf, and quarter-ill." 
 
 Jamieson's Pop. Bal. i, 363. 
 
 QUEEN-CAT, n. A female cat. 
 
 QUEEN-CAKE, n. A sweet cake. 
 
 QUEER, n. The choir of a church. Skel., Car. 
 
 "The (jueere sail be of length within with the thick- 
 nesse of bathe walles, fifti fote." — Endentiire made 
 at Burgh, 1 Hen. V. (Whittaker's Richmond- 
 shire, ii, 25.) 
 
 QUEER, n. A quire of paper. Car. 
 
 QUITS : Double or quits, a phrase meaning " Shall the 
 debt be doubled or discharged?" Car.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 101 
 
 R 
 
 ABBLEMENT, n. A low mob. Car. 
 
 RACE, n. Mill-race, the channel for the water which 
 turns a mill. 
 
 RACE-GINGER, n. Ginger root. 
 
 RACK, n. "The rack rides" is a phrase used when the 
 clouds are driven rapidly by the wind. Shaks. Hen. VI, 
 Part III, ii, 1 ; Sonnet xxxiii. , 
 
 " Then Northern winds that drive the rack." 
 
 Du Bartas's First Book of Judith. 
 
 See Jam. v. Rak. Car. 
 RACKLE, a. "A rackle chap," a disorderly person. 
 
 None of the definitions in Jam., W. and C, Will., 
 correspond with the above. 
 RACKLENESS, n. Disorderly conduct. 
 RACKLESS, a. Thoughtless. Car. 
 RADE (pronounced r'tjad), v. Did ride. 
 
 RAFF 1 
 
 ' \n. Idle, dissolute people. Car. (2), Will. 
 
 RAFFALLY, J 
 
 RAFF-YARD, 7i. A timber-yard. 
 
 RAGGABRASH, n. An idle, disorderly person. Car. 
 
 RAG-STONE, u. A stone about five or six inches long, 
 
 and an inch (square) in width, used by labourers and 
 
 others to sharpen their tools, such as hay-spades, 
 
 axes, &c. 
 RAIM (pronounced r'l/am), v. To cry aloud, and ask for 
 
 anything repeatedly, and in an importunate manner. 
 
 Jam. V. Rame. Will. 
 RAM, a. Acrid, pungent, applied more to the taste than the 
 
 smell. 
 
 RANG,^ , . . 
 
 RUNG,/^^'-^'-"^^"^S. 
 
 RANK, a. Close together, thick set. A.S.ranc. Car., H. 
 
 RANNLE-BAUK, n. A beam across the open chimneys in 
 
 old houses through which the reckin-tree passes at
 
 102 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 right angles to the gable end ; from the reckin-tree 
 
 are suspended the reckin-cruiks. Jam., Sup. p. 268, 
 
 V. Rannle-bauks. Car., TV. and C. 
 RAPE, n. Rope. A. S. i-ap. Car. 
 RAPS, n. pi. News. Car. 
 RARELY, adv. Very well. 
 RASP, n. A raspberry. Car. 
 
 RATTEN, n. A rat. A. S. rcet. Car., H., W. and C. 
 RAVE, pret. of rive. Car. 
 RAVEL, V. To entangle. 
 RAVELLED, p. pa. Entangled. 
 RAW, n. Row. A. S. rawa. Jam., Car. 
 RAX, V. n. To stretch the bodily members, as one when 
 
 fatigued or awaking. A. S. rcecan. 
 
 " Carles wha heard the cock had crawn, 
 
 Begoud to raa; and rift." 
 
 liamsat/'s Poems. 
 
 It is seldom used as a r. a. Jam., Bur. ii, p. 35 ; 
 Scott's P. TV., ii. 24. 
 RAYNE,"! H. The piece of grass land between the hedge 
 REE AN, J and the part which is in tillage ; the grass of 
 
 which farmers usually allow cottagers to mow and 
 
 make hay of. Icel. ?'en, margin or border of a field. 
 
 Belg. i-epi. See H., Her., Wilb., where this word 
 
 has a different meaning. 
 REACH, v. n. To have an inclination to vomit. Car. 
 REACH TO, V. Help yourself. Car. 
 RE AN, n. A rein. Car. 
 REAST, n. Rust. 
 REASTED, a. Rancid, as, "^ras^ec? bacon." Car., Lane. 
 
 Reasty is used in this sense by Tusser. 
 REBBIT, V. To rivet. Car. 
 REESTY, a. Restive, as, " a ree^^y liorse." Car. 
 
 " In cart or car thou never reestit." 
 Car. Burns, ii, 34.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 103 
 
 RECKLIN, n. The least and weakest of tlie young of any 
 animal which brings foi'th several at one time. Car. 
 
 RECKIN-CRUIK, n. Recking-crook, a crook of two parts, 
 the upper part having several holes in it, so that the 
 vessel suspended may be raised or lowered. 
 
 RECKON, V. To suppose. " I reckon seah." Car. 
 
 RED, V. To red the hair, to comb the hair. Jam. 
 
 RED, V. To put in order. The word seems to be used in 
 this sense in the following lines : 
 
 " Auld Luckie says they're iu a creel, 
 And redds theiu up, I trow fu' weel." 
 
 The Farmer's Ha', by Chas. Keith. 
 
 Used also, figuratively, in the sense of clearing up. 
 
 " Redd up my ravelled doubts." 
 
 Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd. 
 Jam. 
 REDCHESTER, n. Register. 
 
 The word " redgestered" occurs in the parish books 
 of Gainford, a.d. 1659. 
 REDDING-KAME, n. A comb for the hair. 
 
 " But she has stown the king's redding kaim." 
 
 Scott's P. IV. iii, 132. 
 
 See Jam. v. Red-kaim. 
 REED, a. Red. A. S. read. TV. and C. 
 REEK, n. Smoke. A. S. rec. Jam. v. Reik. Car., H., 
 
 Lane. 
 REEK, V. To smoke. Car. 
 REEK-PENNY, n. An Easter due paid to the minister. 
 
 See Surtees' Durham, iv, p. 85, note y. 
 REET, n. and a. Right. 
 REET, V. To put right, 
 REET, n. Wright, as, " a cart-wright," &c. A. S. wryhta. 
 
 Car. 
 REETED, a. Done justice to.
 
 104 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 
 
 REMLIN, -1 „ 
 
 REMLET,r*- ^'^^^^*- ^^''• 
 
 RENCH, V. To rince. Car., W. and C. 
 
 RENDER, V. To melt down suet. Icel. rinde. Jant. v. 
 
 Rind. Car., H., W^ilb. 
 RERE, a. Rawisli, insufficiently cooked. Ak. Will. v. Rear. 
 RESHES, n. pi. Rushes. (The singular form is seldom 
 
 used.) A. S. 7'isc. 
 RESHY-CAP, n. A cap of a conical form, made by boys, 
 
 of rushes. The i^hl is generally a three-plet. 
 RESHY-WHIP, n. A whip made of rushes. 
 RICK, n. A hayrick. This word is not much used. Lane. 
 RIDDLE, n. A large sieve used for cleaning grain. A. S. 
 
 hriddel. Ak., Car., Lane, fflll. 
 RIDDLE, V. To clean grain by means of a sieve. 
 RIDDLE AND SHEARS: A mode of divination for the 
 discovery of theft. This superstition is now nearly 
 obsolete. See an account of thepi'ocess mJamieson's 
 Snjyphment, p. 297. 
 
 "This custom must have been very ancient. Theocritus 
 speaks of it as quite common in his time, particularly 
 as a mode of divination in regard to the success of 
 love. 
 
 ' To Agrio, too, I made the same demand, 
 A cunning woman she, I crost her liand ; 
 She turn'd the sieve and shears, and told me true, 
 That I should love, hut not ])e lov'd by you.' 
 
 Idyll. 3 (Creech's Translation). 
 Lucian also speaks of divining by a sieve (koctkivov 
 puvTevofjeios) as a common practice in his time. 
 Pseudomantis, Op. i, 753." Foshroke's En. of Ant. 
 
 " Th' oracle of sieve and shears, 
 That turns as certain as the spheres." 
 
 Hudihras, Part 2, Canto ill, 1. 569. 
 Brandos Pop. Ant. iii, 187. 
 RIDDY, a. Ready.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 105 
 
 RIFE, a. Prevalent. A. S. ryf. 
 
 RIFF-RAFF, n. Low, disorderly people. Lane, Will. 
 
 RIFT, V. To belch. Jam., Car., Lane, Will. 
 
 RIG, n. A ridge. Car. (2). 
 
 RIG AND FUR : Ridge and furrow ; applied also to 
 
 stockings knit in a particular manner. Jam. v. Rig. 
 
 (4). For. 
 RIGGIN, n. The ridge of a house ; also the main piece of 
 
 timber in the ridge. Car. 
 RIND, n. Hoar frost. 
 RIPE, V. To quarry stones. 
 RIST, n. Rest. Car. 
 RIST, V. To rest. 
 RIVE, n. A rent. Car. 
 
 RIVE, V. To tear asunder. Lane, W.andC. (1). 
 ROAKY, a. Misty. Used by Ray. Car., For. 
 ROBIN, n. The familiar name for the redbreast. 
 
 "Ruddock" is a name given hy Chaucer, Spenser, and 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 This bird has always been a favorite with the poets. 
 
 " No burial this pretty babe 
 Of any man receives, 
 But robin redbreast painfully 
 Did cover him with leaves." 
 
 Children in the Wood. 
 See Spectator, No. 58. 
 
 " To rehsh a love-song like a robin redbreast." 
 
 Shaks. Two Gent, of Ver. ii, 1. 
 
 the ruddock would, 
 
 With charitable bill, — bring thee all this ; 
 Yea, and furr'd moss besides." 
 
 Shaks. Cymb. iv, 2. 
 
 Dr. Percy asks : " Is this an allusion to the Babes of 
 the Wood, or was the notion of the redbreast 
 covering dead bodies general before the writing of 
 that ballad?" 
 
 5§
 
 106 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 There is every reason to believe that this notion is an 
 old popular belief. 
 
 " The robin redbreast, if he find a man or woman 
 dead, will cover all his face with mosse ; and some 
 think that if the body should remaine unburied that 
 he would cover the whole body also." — Cornucopia, 
 by Thos. Johnson, 1596. 
 
 " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, 
 Since o'er shady groves they hover, 
 And with leaves and flowers do cover 
 The friendless bodies of unburied men." 
 Webster's White Devil (Dyce's Ed. 1830, vol. i, p. 146). 
 
 " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye. 
 
 The little redbreast teacheth cliaritie." 
 
 Drayton's Owl. 
 
 " Robin the mean, that best of all loves men." 
 
 Browne. 
 
 " Sweet Amarillis, by a spring's 
 Soft and soule-melting murniurings, 
 Slei^t : and thus sleeping thither flew 
 A robin redbreast ; who at view, 
 Not seeing her at all to stir. 
 Brought leaves and mosse to cover her." 
 
 Herrick's Hesperides, p. 49. 
 
 " The honest robin, that loves mankind both dead and alive." 
 
 Isaac Walton. 
 
 " The i'obi7i redbreast, till of late had rest. 
 And children sacred held a martin's nest." 
 
 " The redbreast, sacred to the household gods. 
 Pays to trusted man his annual visit." 
 
 Pope. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
 " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year. 
 
 By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : 
 The redbreast loves to build and warble there, 
 And little footsteps lightly print the ground." 
 
 Gray's Elegy (omitted stanza).
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 107 
 
 " The redbreast oft at evening hours 
 Shall kindly lend his little aid, 
 With hoary moss and gathered flowers, 
 To deck the ground where thou art laid." 
 
 Collins, Dirge in Cymbeline. 
 
 See also Epitaph on a Tame Redbreast {Cowper's 
 Poems, Ed. 1837, vol. x, p. 53); Invitation to the 
 Redbreast (translated from V. Bourne, vol. x, p. 1 1 9); 
 Brand's Pop. Ant. iii, 101; Hone's Year Book, p. 63. 
 
 ROCK, n. The part of a spinning-wheel on which the flax 
 is placed. 
 
 ROLL, n. A circular pad, placed on the head to support 
 a milkpail, &c. 
 
 ROLLING-PIN, n. A cylindrical piece of wood, tapering 
 at each end, for rolling paste. 
 
 ROISTERING, a. Noisy and boastful. 
 
 ROOPY, a. Hoarse. Sc. roupy and roupit. Car. 
 
 ROSE, ti. A riband gathered into a knot in the form of a 
 rose, and fastened on the instep. This was the ori- 
 ginal meaning. The rose is now found on many 
 parts of the dress. 
 
 "When roses in the gardaines grew, 
 And not in ribons on a shoe." 
 
 Friar Bakon's Prophesie (Percy Soc. Pub.) 
 
 " The Provencial roses on my razed shoes." 
 
 Shaks. Hamlet, iii, 2. 
 
 " Those roses 
 Were big enough to hide a cloven foot." 
 
 Ben Jonson. 
 
 The Devil is an Ass, i, 2. See Gi ford' s Notes to Ben 
 Jonson, vol. 20, iii, 368. (Ed. 1816.) 
 ROSEL, n. Resin. For., II. 
 ROSEL, V. To crisp with heat. 
 ROVEN, p. pa. of rive.
 
 108 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 ROUT, v. A term applied to the noise made by an animal, 
 
 as a bull, &c. 
 ROUT, V. Applied to the tearing up the ground by an 
 
 animal, as a bull, a swine. 
 
 " Do thou the monumental hillock guard 
 From trampling cattle, and the routing swine." 
 
 Edwards, Sonnets (1758), S. 44. 
 
 ROYAL-OAK DAY, The 29th of May. It was a custom 
 formerly to decorate the heads of horses in coaches, 
 waggons, and carts with oak leaves on this day. See 
 Brand's Pop. Ant. i, 155. 
 
 RUCK, ti. A great quantity. Ca)'. 
 
 RUD, n. A soft red stone. A. S. )'ude. 
 
 RUD, V. To mark with a red stone, as sheep are marked. 
 
 " There's some will ca' me Parcy Reed, 
 
 And speak my praise in tower and town ; 
 It's little matter what they do now, 
 
 My life-hlood rudds the heather brown." 
 
 The Death of Parcy Reed, Dixon's Ballads, 8fc. p. 105 
 
 (Percy Soc. Pub.) 
 This word occurs as a verb in Spenser. It is now 
 seldom used, except as connected with the marking 
 of sheep. 
 RUDSTAKES, n. pi. The stakes to which cattle are tied 
 
 in the house. 
 RULE 0' THUMB : By rule o' thumb, by guess, not by 
 
 measure or weight. 
 RUNG, n. The step of a ladder. Will. 
 RYDE, n. An inroad. Sc. i-aid. See Ja7n. v. Rade. 
 
 " Rookhope-jRycZe" is a bishopric border song, com- 
 posed in 1569. See Ritsons Bishopric Garland, 
 p. .54. 
 RYME, n. Hoar frost.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 109 
 
 O ACKLESS, a. Silly, and not able to do much, either 
 ^ from want of common sense, or from ill health. Jam., 
 
 W. and C. 
 SAD, a. Heavy, applied to bread when it has not risen. 
 
 Car. {\), H. 
 SAFE (pronounced s'yaf), a. Certain. Car. (2), Wilb. 
 SAG, V. n. To give way, so as to curve or bend from a 
 
 horizontal position. 
 
 " The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, 
 Shall never sag with doubt, nor shake with fear." 
 
 Shaks. Macbeth, v, 3. 
 John., Jam., Car., For., Nares v. Sagg. 
 SALL, V. Shall. B. Jon. Car. 
 
 SAME, n. Hog's lard. A. S. seime. Welsh, saim. Car. 
 SAMCAST, n. Two ridges ploughed so as to form one. 
 SAMPLETH, n. A sampler. It is usually of an oblong 
 shape, worked in worsted, with such devices as may 
 be chosen, for instance, 1st. A line of capital letters: 
 2d. A line of small letters : 3d. A line of figures : 
 then fanciful devices, birds, hearts, «&;c., and lastly, 
 the name at fall length of the young girl who has 
 wrought it, her age, the date, and the name of the 
 place. H., W. and C. 
 SANG, n. Song. A. S. sang. Car. 
 SANNOT, V. Shall not. Car. 
 SAFE (pronounced syap), n. Soap. A. S. sape. Jam., 
 
 Car. 
 SAP-WHISTLE, n. A whistle made of a twig of the plane 
 
 tree, when the bark will peel off. Car. 
 SARE, n. A sore. A. S. sar. Jain., TV. and C. 
 SARE, a. Sore. 
 
 SARE, adv. Greatly, as, "sure put about," &c. 
 SARELY, adv. Sorely. 
 
 SARK, n. Shirt. A. S. syrce. Jam., Car., Lane, W. and C, 
 Will.
 
 no TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 HARDEN-SARK, n. A loose frock, reaching below 
 the knees, worn by agricultural labourers. 
 SARMON, n. Sermon. Car. 
 SARROW, V. To serve. Car., W, and C. 
 SARTIN, a. Certain. 
 SARTINLY, adv. Certainly. 
 SATTLE, V. To settle. Sahtle is found in Piers Plowman, 
 
 Car. 
 SATTLIN, n. A settling. Car. (1). 
 SAUCE, n. Insolent language. Car. (2). 
 SAUCEBOX, n. A term applied to an impertinent child 
 or young person, usually of the male sex. 
 In the following passages the sense is the same, but 
 applied to persons who are not juvenile : 
 
 " Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, 
 And prate not here !" 
 
 Brewer, Lingua (Ed. 1657). 
 
 "The foolish old poet says that the souls of some 
 women are made of sea-water: this has encouraged 
 my saucebox to be witty upon me." — Addison, 
 Spectator. 
 
 Brand's Pop. Ant. iii, 186. 
 SAUL, n. A substance which lines the inside of the back- 
 bone of fowls ; being unconnected with the entrails, it 
 
 is left in and cooked. 
 SAUT, w. Salt. liKi.sal. A.^.sealf. Dan., Sw., Icel., 
 
 salt. Jam., Car., TV. and C. 
 SAUVE, n. The sallow. Lat. salix. A. S. salh. Sc. 
 
 sangh. Car. v. Savf. 
 SAW, V. To sow. A. S. sawan. Car. 
 SAY, n. Influence, interest. 
 
 SAY, V. To control, as a parent does a child. Car. 
 SAY NAY, V. To deny. Car. 
 SCAB, n. The itch ; also, the covering of a newly-healed 
 
 wound.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 1 1 1 
 
 SCAD, V. To scald, Jain. 
 
 SCADDIN OF PEAS : Gray peas are boiled in the pods, 
 then stramed on a sieve, and placed (in the sieve) 
 on the table, with a saucer containing butter, in the 
 centre. Salt is sprinkled on them, and each person 
 standing round dips his peas in the saucer. See 
 Car. V. Scaud'm o' Peys. 
 
 SCALE, V. To break and disperse manure in a field. Car. (2) . 
 
 SCALING-FORK, n. A fork made of wood, having four 
 grains or teeth. 
 
 SCALLION, n. The onion plant before the bulb is formed. 
 
 SCAR, n. A precipitous, rocky bank overhanging a stream. 
 
 " Whose crooked back is armed with many a rugged scarr." 
 
 Drayton's Polyolbion, S. 27. 
 
 " Whyles round a rocky scar it strays." 
 
 Burns. 
 
 " Is it the roar of Teviot's tide 
 
 That chafes against the scaur's red side ?" 
 
 Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto i, 12, 
 
 Car., Her., Lane, W. and C, Will. 
 SCHULE, n. School. 
 SCOOL, V. Applied to a horse drawing back his ears and 
 
 attempting to bite. 
 SCORE, 71. Among merchants in the case of certain articles, 
 
 formerly six score went to the hundred, to which usage 
 
 the following rhyme refers : 
 
 " Five score's a hundred of men, money, and pins, 
 Six score's a hundred of all other things." 
 
 Nails, qviills, and eggs are still sold at six score to the 
 hundred. The Stat. lien. Ill, "de tnensuris," and 
 the Stat. 31 Edw. Ill, st. ii, a.d. 1357, " de allece 
 vendendo,^' ordained that a hundred of herrings 
 should be accounted by six score. — Stat, of Realm, 
 i, 354. 
 
 See Car. v. Long-liimdred, Brand's Pop. Ant. ii, 274.
 
 1 12 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 SCOUTHER, n. Denoting great confusion in the state of 
 household furniture, or the act of getting rid of such 
 confusion. 
 
 " Ye had better get a scaud than a scouther." 
 
 Scots Proverb. 
 
 W. and C. 
 SCRAFFLE, v. To scraffle on, means to be industrious 
 
 without being prosperous. 
 SCRAN, n. Provision. W. and C. 
 SCRAT, 71. A scratch. W. and C. 
 SCRAT, V. To scratch. Car. 
 SCREED,?*. A border; as, cK^-screed. A. S. screade. 
 
 Cat: 
 SCREW-JACK, n. Used to move heavy weights. 
 SCROU, n. Applied to a place that is untidy, and differing 
 from scowder and scvfter in this respect, that there 
 is no person engaged in putting things right. 
 SCUFFLER, n. An agricultural implement. 
 SCUFTER, V. To do anything in a bustling and disorderly 
 
 manner. The word is sometimes used as a noun. 
 SCUMFISH, V. To suffocate. 
 SEAH, adv. So. 
 SECK, n. A sack. Car. 
 
 SECKIN, n. Coarse cloth for making sacks. Car. 
 SEE, V. "To see t' things" is a term for seeing that 
 the cattle in the fields are all right, morning and 
 evening. 
 SEED, V. jvet. of saw. 
 SEEING-GLASS, n. A mirror. Car. 
 SEEK, a. Sick. A. S. seoc. Car. (1). 
 SEER, «. Sure. W.andC. 
 
 SEE-SAW, n. A childish pastime with a piece of string. 
 SEET, n. Sight. Car., W. and C. 
 
 SEG, n. A bull of two years old, or more, when castrated. 
 Car., For., Wilb.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 113 
 
 SEGS, n. pi. Sedges. 
 
 SEIGH, V. To stretch. See Car. v. Sie. 
 
 SELD, V. Did sell. 
 
 SELL, pr. Self. Car., W. and C, Wilb. 
 
 SELLS, pr. Selves. 
 
 SELVEDGE, n. The edge of cloth. 
 
 " The over nape shall dowbulle be layde, 
 To the litter side the selvage brade ; 
 The over selvage he shall replye 
 As towel hit were fay rest in hye." 
 
 The Boke of Curtasye (14th Century). 
 Car. 
 
 SEN, adv. ?indi prep. Since. Jam., Car. 
 
 SEN-SYNE, Since then. D.F. Sin-si/ne nseih j Burns. 
 See Car. v. Sin-s>/ue. 
 
 SET, V. To accompany any one a part of the distance he 
 is going. 
 
 SETTEN-ON, (1) A term applied to a hquid that is 
 slightly burnt in the process of boiling. (2) To a 
 person of diminutive stature and imperfect growth. 
 
 SETTERDAY, ti. Saturday. Car. 
 
 SEW, V. Did sow, as "corn." 
 
 SEW'D, V. Did sew, as "a seam." 
 
 SHACK, V. To shake. Car. 
 
 SHACKLE, n. A curved iron implement, to which any 
 machine, as a harrow, is attached, a bolt passing 
 through two holes in the extremities of the shackle. 
 
 SHACKLE B'YAN, n. The wrist-bone. 
 
 " Contrive na we, your shakle banes, 
 Will mak but little streik." 
 Car. Poems in the Buchan Dialect, p. 35. 
 
 SHAF, n. A sheaf. 
 SHAG, n. Coarse velvet. 
 
 SHALE, V. To drag the feet so as to scrape the ground. 
 Car.
 
 114 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 SHALING, p. in. of Shale. 
 
 SHAM, n. Shame. Car. 
 
 SHAM-ABRAHAM, n. An idle impostor. It is used as a 
 verb by Goldsmith. See Essays. See Boucher s 
 Glossary, "Abraham Men." 
 
 SHANK, n. A handle or shaft. 
 
 In the plural, used for the legs. 
 
 SHAP, n. Shape. Car., JV. and C. 
 
 SHAP, V. (1). To shape. Car. (2). To set about any- 
 thing in a workmanlike manner. Wilb. 
 
 SHARP, V. To sharpen. Sji. and B. Jonson. 
 
 The word is applied to the sharpening of plough-irons, 
 that is, the sock and coulter. 
 
 SHARP : "Be sharj)," that is, make haste. Car. 
 
 SHEAR, V. To cut corn with a sickle. TF. and C, Wilb., 
 Will. 
 
 SHEARERS, M. ;;/. Corn-reapers. Generally three sAmrer* 
 and one binder constitute a " yan ;" the number varies 
 with the breadth of the ridge. The "yan" next to 
 the part which is already cut, is called the " leading 
 yan." "Three yan' would consist of mwQ shearers 
 and three binders. Car. 
 
 SHEARING, n. andjj. ^w. Reaping. 
 
 " In har'st at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering." 
 
 Flowers of the Forest (Scott's P.W. iii, 335). 
 Car. 
 
 SHETH, n. For the greater convenience of mowing, large 
 fields are set out into sheths ; in small fields this is 
 not necessary, as they can be mown from side to side 
 conveniently. 
 
 SHIBBIN, 71. A shoe-tie of leather. 
 
 SHIFT, V. n. To remove, as from one residence to another. 
 
 SHIG-SHOG, n. A pastime, where two boys are seated, 
 astride, one at each end of a beam, resting about 
 the centre across a tree or large beam ; by a sudden
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 115 
 
 pusli with the feet ou the ground, a motion up and 
 down is communicated. See Brand's Pop. Ant. ii, 
 258, under "See-saw." It is called "tetter-totter," 
 by Strutt. See Sp. and Pas. p. 2G9 (4to Ed. 1810), 
 and is known in Roxburghshire as "titter-totter." 
 
 SHILL, V. To skill beans or peas, i. e. to take off the 
 swads or husks. Car. (1). 
 
 SHILL, a. Shrill. 
 
 " The pryce he blewe fuUe schylle." 
 Thornton Romances — Sir Eglamour, 1. 300, and note, p. 311 
 
 (Camden Soc. Pub.) 
 
 See also Archceol. xxi, p. Gl, note (/), where the 
 annotator's conjecture seems erroneous. 
 
 " A miller's daughter has a shill voice." 
 
 Scots Proverb. 
 
 SHIN, V. To trump at cards. 
 
 SHINNY, n. A pastime with a stout stick (curved at the 
 striking end) and a piece of wood. It is played 
 between two fixed boundaries, and on reaching either, 
 the knor or wood is said to be alley-ed, as in football. 
 Probably the same as the Scotch " Shinty." 
 
 SHITTLE, n. Shuttle. 
 
 SHIVE, n. A slice of bread. DuT. schyf. 
 
 " A sheeve of bread as brown as nut." 
 
 Warner, Albion's England. 
 
 " Easy it is 
 " Of a cut loaf to steal a skive." 
 
 Shaks. Titus Andronicus, ii, 1. 
 For. (1), Wilb. 
 
 SHOE-BUCKLE, n. A large buckle worn on the shoes by 
 both sexes. This has long been out of use. 
 
 SHOO : A word, when quickly repeated, used to frighten 
 away birds or fowls. Car., H., Wilb. 
 
 SHOOL, n. Shovel. Dux. school. Car., Her., H., Jen., 
 W. and C.
 
 116 TEESDALE GLOSSAUY. 
 
 SHOT, n. The reckoning in a public-house. W. and C. 
 
 SHOT : To get shot of, i. e. to get rid of. 
 
 SHOT, V. Turned out, as, "rubbish may be s/w^ here." See 
 
 Thornton Romances (Camden Soc, Tub.)— Sir Percival, 
 
 1. 2114, sehott. 
 SHOUTHER, n. Shoulder. DuT. schouder. 
 
 " Shouther to shouther stands steel and pouther." 
 
 Scots Saying. 
 
 SHROVE-MOUSE, n. The field mouse. 
 
 SHUFFLE AND CUT, n. A step in vulgar dancing. 
 
 SHUN, w.p/. Shoes. Ger. «c/«<A. 
 
 SYKE I ^^^^^' ^"'*' 
 
 syke-ly\e,}«- '^"^ ^'^'- '''•' ^- '"''■' ""''' 
 
 SIDDEL, n. Schedule. 
 
 SIDE-LANG, n. A hopple attached to a fore and a hinder 
 
 leg of a horse on the same side. 
 SIDE-UP, V. To put things in order. Car. (1). 
 SIGHT, n. A sight of people, i. e. " a great number of 
 
 people." Car. 
 SIKE, ^ n. A small stream of water. A. S. sic. 
 SYKE,/ The stream which runs through the village of 
 
 Newsham is invariably so designated. Car., Lane, 
 
 W. and C. 
 SILE, n. A milk-strainer, in the shape of a bowl, having 
 
 a hole in the centre which is covered with fine muslin. 
 
 Car. 
 SILE-CLOUT, >«. Sile-cloth, generally of fine muslin. The 
 
 form is sigh-clout in tlie old ballad of "Take thy old 
 
 cloak about thee." Per. Itel. i, 208. 
 SILE, V. To strain milk. Car. (1), For. (I), H. 
 SILES, n. 2^1- The main timbers in the roof of a house. 
 SILL, n. The bottom stone in a door or window. A. S. 
 
 syl. Will.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 117 
 
 SILL, n. A stratum of rock, as in the bed of tlie Tees. 
 
 SILLY, a. Weak in body or mind. Cai\ 
 
 SIND, V. To rinse. Car., JF. and C. 
 
 SINE, adv. andjJrep. Since. Car. 
 
 SIPE, V. n. To ooze out. Jam., Ca?\, JF. and C. 
 
 SIPLIN, n. "Esh-sijilin," a young ash, when sufficiently 
 
 grown to make a walking-stick of. 
 SIR-REYERENCE, n. Human ordure. This term was 
 
 formerly used as a kind of apologetical apostrophe. 
 
 Derived from the Latin, salvd reverentiu. See Blounfs 
 
 Glossngruph. : 8vo, 1681, v. Sareverance. 
 
 " Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he 
 say sir-reverence.'''' — Shuks. Com. of Errors, iii, 2. 
 See also Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, i, 4. 
 SISSERx\Rx\^, n. A violent rebuking or scolding. 
 
 This word, in a rather different form, but with a like 
 meaning, is used by Goldsmith, Ficar of Wakejield, 
 chap. 21. 
 
 "As for the matter of that, returned the hostess, 
 gentle or simple, out she shall pack with a sassa- 
 rara." 
 SITFAST, n. A species of boil, a hard substance in a wound, 
 
 which requires to be destroyed by burnt alum or 
 
 caustic. Car. 
 SIV, n. Sieve. 
 SKEEL, n. A round wooden vessel for holding water. 
 
 A. S. see/. Car. 
 SKELLY, V. To squint. Dan. skele. This word is but 
 
 seldom used. 
 SKELP, n. A slap with the open hand, more especially on 
 
 the back. 
 
 " I canno' tell a', I canno' tell a', 
 Some gat a skelp, and some gat a claw." 
 
 The Death of Featherstonliaugh (Scott's P. W. ii, 88.)
 
 118 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 SKELP, v. To beat with the hand. Ice. skelpa. Skelpe 
 used by Sk. Car., II. 
 
 SKELPING, n. The act of so beating. 
 
 SKEP, n. A small basket made of straw. A. S. seep. 
 Sw. skeppa. 
 
 " So saying, Andrew retreated; but often cast a parting 
 glance upon the skeps, as he called the beehives." — 
 Eob Roy, chap. 1/ ; Waverhj Novels, vii, 253. 
 
 SKIP-JACK, n. A toy made of the merry-thought bone of 
 a goose, by means of a twisted thread, a piece of wood, 
 and some wax. See Jam. v. Jumping Jock. Car., 
 For. 
 
 SKRIKE, V. To screech. Car. v. Scrike. 
 
 SLABBY, a. Miry. 
 
 SLAB-WHEEL, n. A wheel for spinning woollen. In use 
 in the early part of this century. 
 
 SLACK, n. A hollow between two small hills. Car. 
 
 SLADDER, V. To spill any liquid, as water. See Will. v. 
 Slatter. 
 
 SLADDERY, a. Dirty, muddy, as a road. Car. v. Slat- 
 ter y. 
 
 SLADE (pronounced sPyad), v. Did slide. 
 
 SLAFTER, V. To slaughter. 
 
 SLAFTER-HOUSE, n. Slaughter-house. 
 
 SLAG, n. Refuse material in smelting lead, manufacturing 
 iron, &c. Car. 
 
 SLAISTERING, a. A term applied to a strong, powerful 
 man. 
 
 ST APF 1 
 
 ST TPPY f "' ^^'PP^^y- ^^''•' ^-i ^' ^"^^ ^> TFilb., Will. 
 
 SLAW, a. Slow. A. S. slaw. Car. 
 
 SLAY, 71. A sort of comb, made of split reeds, and fixed in 
 
 the beam of a weaver's loom. A. S. sla. 
 SLEAH, n. A sloe. W. and C.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAEY. 119 
 
 SLECK, V. To sleek lime, to cool it by water. Car. 
 
 SLED, 71. Sledge. Her. 
 
 SLEE, a. Sly. JF. and C. 
 
 SLING, n. An instrument for throwing stones, formed of 
 a short leather strap, and strings attached to the ex- 
 tremities of it. The strings are of unequal length. 
 Slinging was a pastime among boys in the early part 
 of this century. See Strutfs Sj). and Past., p. 67 
 (4to Ed. 1810). 
 
 SLIP, n. A moveable iron hoop, which fastens the fore 
 part of a cart to the shaft. 
 
 SLIPE, i\ To strip off, as bark from a tree. See Jam. v. 
 Slype. 
 
 SLOCKEN, V. To quench, as, "to slocJcen thirst." 
 
 " Foul water slackens fire 
 
 An' drouth, thir days." 
 
 Fergusson, Leith Races. 
 
 SLOGGERING, a. Slovenly. 
 
 SLOPE, V. To make a noise with the lips when supping 
 
 any liquid, either with or without a spoon. 
 SLOT, n. A bolt. Teut. solt. See Jam., Car. 
 SLOT, V. To bolt, as, ''slot f door." 
 SLOSH, 1 
 
 SLUSH, I n. Mire. Jam. 
 SLUDGE,J 
 SMACK, n. A blow. 
 
 SMACK, n. A kiss, given with a noise from the lips. 
 SMALLISH, a. Rather small. Car. 
 SMALLY, a. Small. 
 SMATCH, n. Flavour j generally in an unfavorable sense. 
 
 Car. 
 SMIT, V. To infect. 
 SMITTLE, n. Infection. 
 SMOCK, n. A woman's shift. A. S. smoc.
 
 120 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 
 
 SMOOR, V. To smother. A. S. smoran. 
 
 " Swelling pity smoor'd his wrath." 
 
 Burns. 
 
 Car., Will. 
 SMUDGE, V. To burn without flame, as a candle when 
 
 blown out. The noun is seldom used. 
 SNACK, n. A short repast. 
 SNAG, V. To lop off branches of trees. Car., W. and C, 
 
 Will. 
 SNAP, n. A small, thin cake of gingerbread. One kind 
 
 is known by the well-known name of "brandy «/2ffp5." 
 
 W. and C. 
 SNAPE, V. To reprimand, to check. Ice. sneipa. 
 
 The old form used by authors is sneap. 
 
 " And give the sneaped birds more cause to sing." 
 
 Shaks. Rape of Lucrece. 
 Car., Lane, W. and C, Will. 
 SNARL, n. A snare. 
 SNARL, V. To snare. Dan. snarer. 
 SNAW, n. Snow. A. S. snaw. Car. 
 SNAW, V. To snow. 
 SNECK, n. The latch of a door or gate. 
 
 " The door's wide open, nae sneck ye hae to draw." 
 
 Ross's Helenore, p. 77. 
 Jam., Car., H., Lane, Will. 
 SNECK, V. To fasten the latch. Car. 
 SNED, n. The pole of a scythe. A. S. sncBd. On the 
 sned are two curved handles, called "nibs." 
 " This is fixed on a long sneed or straight handle." — 
 Evelyn, Book II, c. G, s. 2. See Ak., and Bar. v. 
 Snead. 
 SNEW, V. Did snow. 
 
 " It mew during the whole battle." — Holinshed. Car. 
 SNIFTER, V. To draw the breath audibly through the 
 nose at short intervals. Car.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 121 
 
 SNOD, 
 
 SNODDFN f ^' ^^ smooth down. Car. 
 
 SNOD, a. Having a smooth surface, as cloth, grass, &c. 
 A. S. snidan. Jam., Car., W. and C, Will. 
 
 SNOKE, V. To draw the breath through the nostrils with 
 a hollow sound, made by keeping the mouth open. 
 The word has a somewhat different meaning in Scot- 
 land. See Ja>n. 
 
 SNOT, n. The mucus of the nose. A. S. snote. 
 
 " Thus when a greedy sloven once has thrown 
 His snot into the mess, 'tis all his own." 
 
 Siviff. 
 
 > a. Full of snot. 
 
 SNOTTERING, jJ- pr. Sobbing, crying. 
 
 SNOTTY, 
 
 SNOTTY-NOSED, 
 
 "This Squire South my husband took in a dirty 
 snotty-no&edi boy." — Arhuthnot. 
 SNUB, V. (1) To check or reprimand a child. (2) To 
 check the growth of trees, &c. Icel. snuhba. 
 Near the sea-shores the heads and boughs of trees run 
 out far to landward ; but toward the sea are so 
 snubbed by the winds, as if their boughs had been 
 pared or shaven off." — Ray on the Creation. 
 H., Will. 
 SO NOW, i. e. cease, desist. 
 SOCK, n. A ploughshare. 
 
 " Peace to the husbandman and a' his tribe, 
 
 Whase care fills a' our wants frae year to year ! 
 Lang may his nock and couter turn the gleyb ! 
 And banks o' corn beud down wi' laded ear 1" 
 
 Ferffusson's Poems. 
 SODDENED, a. Thoroughly wet. 
 
 SOL-BOOK, n. A manuscript book, containing the musical 
 notes adapted for instruction in singing, and also a 
 collection of psalm tunes. 
 
 G
 
 122 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 SOOK, n. A suck. Car. v. Souk. 
 
 SOOK, V. To suck. 
 
 SOPE, n. Sup. Car. 
 
 SOSS, «. To lap, as a dog laps milk. Car. 
 
 SOUGH, V. To make a hollow moaning sound, as the wind 
 
 does sometimes. The participle is more used than 
 
 the verb or the noun. 
 
 " My fitstep-tread there's nane can ken, 
 For the sughin wind and rain, Jo. 
 
 Let me in this ae night." 
 
 Bums. 
 SOUPLE, a. Supple. 
 
 SOUTHRON-WOOD, n. The Artemisia Abrotanum, called 
 generally in the South, "old man's love." In Wilts, 
 "boy's love." 
 SOWDER, 71. Solder. 
 SOWDER, V. To solder. 
 SPAK, V. Did speak. Car. 
 SPAN-NEW, a. Quite new. 
 
 The idea convejed by this and similar terms is, of 
 
 something used for the first time. 
 Ency. Met. Grammar, yo\. i, p. 112. See Brand-new 
 
 in John., Web. 
 Span-newe is used by Chaucer. Car., Lane. 
 SPANE (pronounced sp'ijan), v. To wean a child ; also to 
 deprive an animal, as a foal or calf, of its mother's 
 milk. John., Car., Pr. Pa., Will. 
 SPANGIE, n. Formerly a game at marbles. See Jam. 
 SPANG-HEW, V. To throw anything with violence. Will. 
 
 SPANKER, n.\ ^ i i • i ,, r,. „ 
 
 SPANKING a.] denoting large growth. If ill. 
 
 SPARABLES, n. pi. Small nails used by shoemakers. 
 
 Car., II. 
 SPEAK-SHAFT, n. A kind of plane. 
 SPELKS, n. pi. Used in thatching. They are made of
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 123 
 
 hazels bruised in the centre, then twisted and bent. 
 
 The two points penetrate and secure the thatch. 
 
 A. S. S2)elc. Car. (2), W. and C. 
 
 SPELL AND KNORR, n. A pastime of boys. The hiorr 
 
 is a small ball of wood, holly being the best. The 
 
 hiorr is placed in the spell, which is struck at the 
 
 point by the buckstick in such a manner as to make 
 
 the hnorr spring upwards in a forward direction, and 
 
 the player then attempts to hit it with the buckstick, 
 
 which is about four feet long. Teut. knorr. See 
 
 Brand's Pop. Ant. ii, 2.t4. Car. v. Spell and Knorr. 
 
 SPELL, \ , y , 
 SPLENT,r- A splinter. 
 
 SPICE, n. Gingerbread. 
 
 SPICE CAKE, n. A cake with currants in it. 
 
 SPIDDICK AND FAUCET: A sort of wooden cock used 
 
 for barrels. 
 SPILE-HOLE, n. The air-hole in a cask. 
 SPILE-PIN, n. The pin which is fitted into the spile-hole. 
 SPINK, n. (1) The chaffinch. H., Will. (2) A spark 
 
 of fire. 
 SPOIL, n. A small, cylindrical, wooden frame, used by 
 
 weavers to wind the thread or yarn on which is to 
 
 form the warp. See Car. v. Spoele. 
 SPRECKLED, a. Speckled. 
 SPRENT, i9. iJff. Sprinkled. Car. 
 SPUNE, n. Spoon. 
 
 SPURLING, n. A rut made by a cart-wheel. 
 SPURN, n. The toe of a horse's shoe, when sharpened in 
 
 time of frost, is so called. 
 SQUAB, n. A long seat, difiering from a lang-settle, in 
 
 having no back. 
 
 " On her large squab you find her spread." 
 
 Pope's Imitation of the Earl of Dorset, 1. 10. 
 H., W.andC.
 
 124 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 SQUAT, V. To sit down, applied to a bare, 
 
 SQUENCH, r. To quencli. 
 
 SQUIRT, n. A syringe. 
 
 STADDLE, n. A framework on stone posts, to set corn- 
 stacks on. 
 
 STAGGAPtTII {Stack-garth), n. A stack-yard. 
 
 STAKE AND ETHER, n. A kind of fence. See Web., 
 Car. V. Ether, Wilb. v. Eder. 
 
 STAKKER, V. To move unsteadily. Car. v. Stacker. 
 
 STAKKERS, n. A disease in horses and sheep. Car. 
 
 STALE (pronounced sfyul) v. Did steal. 
 
 STALLED, a. Surfeited. H. 
 
 STAKE (pronounced sfyan), n. Stone. A. S. stan. Car. 
 
 STANG, n. A shooting pain. Car. 
 
 STANG, 71. ^This is a punishment for mis- 
 
 RIDING THE STANG,/ behaving husbands and wives, 
 whether the ofience arise from cruelty in the shape 
 of personal chastisement, or from breaking chaste 
 "Diana's pales." A substitute is now usually ob- 
 tained to personate the real offender. See Pr. Par. 
 p. 97, note G; Brand's Pop. Ant. ii. 118; Allan Ram- 
 say's Chrisfs Kirk on the Green, canto iii, st. 18. 
 Extract from ArchcBolof/ical Album, in Chambers's 
 Journal, p. 416. Jam., W. and C, Will. 
 
 STAUP, V. To step heavily with the foot. Car. (1). 
 
 STEE, n. A ladder. A. S. stmjer. Steiffh in Car., 
 Steij in Will. W. and C. 
 
 The word "stairs" was originally spelt steyers, as in 
 Chaucer. 
 
 STEED, ?i. Stead, as, " dioor-stead." A. S. sted. Car. 
 V. Sted. 
 
 STEEK, V. "To steek a door," i. e. to shut a door. The 
 word is nearly obsolete. W. and C. 
 
 STEG, n. A gander. Icel. steyye. Car., W. and C, 
 Will.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 12.') 
 
 STEER, n. A young ox. A. S. styre. 
 STELL, a. A deep, open cutting through a field, for the 
 purpose of draining it. 
 
 "In liickess Thesaurus is a very ancient Saxon charter 
 of land in the Bishopric ; the place is called ' Hali- 
 ware stelle.' " — Ritsons Letters, vol. i, p. 8. 
 STENCHEL {Stanchion), n. An iron bar on the inside or 
 
 outside of a window, 
 STEPPING-STONES, 71. pi. Stones placed at short inter- 
 vals to enable a person to cross a beck or river. 
 Formerly there were such in Staindrop beck, just 
 above the mouth of the mill-race. 
 STIDDY (Stithij), n. An anvil. Sc. studdie. Icel. stedie. 
 A. S. stid. 
 
 " The mind to strengthen and anneal, 
 While on the stithy glows the steel." 
 
 7v'o^-c-%, Canto i, 31. 
 Car., H., Will. v. Stiddie. 
 
 STILT, n. The handle of a plough. Car. 
 
 STIME, n. A dim ray of light. See Ja}n. r. Stijme (3). 
 
 STINT, n. A limited number of cattle gaits. Car. 
 
 STIRK, a. A young steer or heifer, between one and two 
 years old. 
 This word occurs in Sir Williani Breretons Travels 
 
 (Chetham Soc. Pub. 1844, p. 78). 
 Jam., Car., H., Will. 
 
 STIRRINGS, n. pi. The bustle at a market, fair, wedding, 
 &c. Car. 
 
 STITHE, n. A pungent smell, as in a stable. 
 
 STOB, n. A short stick with a sharp point. Jam., Cur. 
 
 STOCKIN: Throwing the stockin, formerly a ceremony 
 used at weddings, is now quite laid aside. The bride 
 used to be put to bed by the bridesmaids, and when 
 in bed, she sat up, and the bridesmaids took a stocking, 
 and standing at the foot of the bed with their backs
 
 126 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 to the bride, threw it over the left shoulder, and the 
 bridesmaid who hit the bride's forehead was to be 
 married first. 
 
 The present custom is to throw a shoe, and this is still 
 done occasionally. Car. 
 STOOK, n. It consists often or twelve sheaves of corn, set 
 up, two being used to hood the stook. 
 
 " While at the stook the shearers cow'r.'' 
 
 Burns, ii, 199. 
 
 Jam., Car,, Will. 
 STOOP, "1 n. A post of wood or stone fastened in 
 
 GATE-STOOP,/ the ground. Jam., Car. (1), H., Will. 
 STORKEN, V. To stiffen, as gravy fat does by cooling. 
 
 Car., W. and C, Wilb., Will. 
 STORY, n. A lie. For. 
 
 STOT, n. An ox of two or three years old. Car., Will. 
 STOUND, n. A numbing pain caused by a blow. 
 STOUR, n. Dust. A. S. styran. 
 
 " For I maun crush amang the stoure 
 Thy slender stem." 
 
 Burns, ii, 267. 
 W. and C. 
 STOWN, p. pa. Stolen. 
 
 " Some ran to coffer, and some to kist, 
 But nought was stoivn that could be mist." 
 
 The Gaberlunzie Man (Percy Rel. ii, 65). 
 
 STRACKLIN, n. An idle, dissipated person. Car. 
 STRAKE, n. A flat piece of wood used for scraping off 
 
 surplus corn in measuring it. 
 STRANG, a. Strong. A. S. strong. Jam., Car. 
 STRANGER, n. A flake of soot hanging on the bar of a 
 
 grate is so called, and portends the speedy visit of 
 
 some stranger.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 127 
 
 STRAPPER, n. "l Denote a person tall and vigorous. 
 
 STRAPPING, a.j Car. 
 
 STREAH, n. Straw. Car., Wilb. 
 
 STREAK, V. To stretch. 
 
 STREAN, n. A strain. Car. 
 
 STREAN, V. To strain. Car. 
 
 STRICKLE, n. An implement used for whetting a scythe. 
 
 It has four sides, which converge to a point. Each 
 
 side is covered with grease and sand. H. 
 STRINKLE, V. To sprinkle. Jam., Car. 
 STRIPPINGS, n. jil. The last part of the milk drawn at one 
 
 meal from a cow. Car., For. 
 STROKE, V. To rub gently with the hand by way of 
 
 kindness. 
 
 " Child Waters iu his stable stoode 
 And stroaht his milke-white steede." 
 
 Child Waters (Per. Rel. iii, 95). 
 
 " Then I'll caress thee, stroke thee into shape." 
 
 The Unhappy Favourite, act i, sc. 1. 
 
 See John. 
 STRUKE, V. Did strike. Car. 
 STUB, n. An old nail from a horse's shoe. Car. 
 STUB, V. To cut down close to the roots, as, " to stub a 
 
 hedge, whins," &c. 
 STUDE, V. Stood. B. V., Car. 
 STUTTER, V. To stammer in speaking. 
 STY, n. This word repeated in quick succession is used to 
 
 drive away pigs. 
 SUD, V. Should. Sc, Car., W. and C. 
 SUE, V. To sew. Car. 
 SUGAR, n. Sugar. 
 
 SUMP, n. A puddle. Car., W. and C. 
 SUN-DANCE, n. A superstition connected with -Easter..   ,■ ^ 
 
 Sunday. See Hone's E. D. B. i, 421. Cn^ /^/^/^«^ /?^^
 
 128 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 SUNE, Soon. W. and C. 
 
 SlITE, n. Soot. 
 
 SWAD, n. The husk of peas, beans, &c. Car., H., Lane. 
 
 SWAG, V. To pull down. 
 
 SWAP, V. To exchange. Sc, Jam., Ak., II., W. and C. 
 
 " Swop," used as a verb by Dryden, as a noun by 
 Addison, Spectator, 559. 
 SWAM, -1 , c   
 
 SWUM, I '' P'"'- "^ '™- 
 SWARM, V. To climb up the trunk of a tree by clasping 
 
 it with the arms and legs. Car., H. See IVill. v. 
 
 Swarhle. 
 SWATH, n. The skin of a bacon collop. 
 SWATHIN, n. Land that has been long in grass. 
 SWATTER, V. To waste away money by spending. 
 SWEAL, V. n. To waste away, as a candle does when ex- 
 posed to a current of air, or when there is a "thief" 
 
 in it. Car., Will. 
 SWEEP, 71. A machine for collecting hay, and drawing it 
 
 to the stack. 
 SWEER, V. To swear. 
 S WEIGH, V. To overbalance by excess of weight, or the 
 
 application of greater force. Car. v. Swey. Will. 
 SWELTERING, p. pr. "A sweltering day," an excessively 
 
 hot day. 
 
 Probably from Icel. swaela, svffocare. The participle 
 is the only form used. Her, v. Sweltered. 
 SWERD, a. Sword. A. S. swijrd. 
 
 " The smith 
 That forgeth sharp swerdes on his stith." 
 
 Chaucer Kn, Tale, 
 Car. V. Swerd. 
 
 SWETHE, n. The grass cut and laid by the scythe. A. S. 
 
 swathe. 
 SWILL, n. A basket made of unpeeled willows. Will.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 129 
 
 SWING, n. Formed by a rope, fastened at the extremities. 
 See Strutfs Sp. and Pas. p. 267 (4to Ed. 1810). 
 
 SWINGLE-TREE, n. A splinter-bar ; the large one nearest 
 the plough is called the " master swinyle-tree''' Jam., 
 Car. 
 
 SWITCH, \ , ,. , ^ ... „ 
 
 SWITCH-STICK,/"- ^^'SK ^"l^P^^ ''"'^- ^' 
 
 SWITCHING, a. "A switching fellow," means a dashing 
 bragging person. 
 
 SWITCH-TAIL, n. A horse's tail which has been cut, and 
 the hair allowed to grow without squaring. 
 
 SWOOPLE, n. The upper part of a flail. See Pr. Par. 
 p. 165, note 2. Jam. v. Souple. Car. v. Swiqjple. 
 
 SWORD-DANCERS, n. pi. The sword-dance is performed 
 at Christmas by about half a dozen young men, carry- 
 ing a kind of sword like a foil, and dressed in shirts, 
 as the upper part of their outward dress, ornamented 
 with ribands. They are accompanied by a clown, who 
 is dressed very grotesquely, and carries a large watch- 
 man's rattle ; also, by a fiddler in ordinary dress. 
 During the dance certain rhymes are sung, and they 
 aftei'wards receive money, and sometimes, also, refresh- 
 ment. The following song was formerly sung ; 
 When good King Arthur ruled his land, 
 
 He was a gracious king, 
 He bought three pecks of barleymeal, 
 To make a bag pudding. 
 
 A bag pudding the king did make, 
 
 And stuff' d it well with plumbs ; 
 And in it put great lumps of fat, 
 
 As big as my two thumbs. 
 
 The king and queen did eat thereof, 
 
 And all the court beside, 
 And what they could not eat that night, 
 
 They had next morning fried. 
 
 See HalliweWs Nursery Rhymes, 1844 ; also an Article 
 
 6§
 
 130 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 on " Sword Dancing," in Sir Cuthhert Sharp's 
 Bishoprick Garland. This article is in Richardson's 
 Table Book, i, 209 (Leg. Div.) Some of the verses 
 at p. 211 used to be sung in this district. 
 In the Scotch ballad of ' Johnny Lad,' there are two 
 stanzas but sUghtly differing from those formerly 
 sung, ^ee Buchan' s Ancient Ballads, vol.ii, p. 153. 
 See also Clarkson's History of Richmond, 4to, 
 p. 290 ; Hones Tear Book, p. 57. 
 Many now living will remember the eccentric Fiddler 
 Wilson, of Cockfield, who frequently accompanied 
 the Staindrop sword-dancers. " He was a native of 
 Cockfield, near Staindrop, where his father carried 
 on business as a master mason. Having received a 
 liberal education, he was ordained for the church, 
 and resided for some years in the North of England 
 as a curate, never having obtained superior prefer- 
 ment. He was twice married, but "too much 
 learning had made him mad," and he returned to 
 his native place, where he resided till his death 
 (in 1842), on the property left him by his father. 
 A lady, resident in this city, remembers having 
 heard Mr. Wilson preach in Morpeth church up- 
 wards of forty years ago." — Durham Advertiser, 
 1842. 
 The sword-dance, said to be an ancient Scandinavian 
 amusement, lingered till a recent period in Shetland. 
 The rhymes connected with its performance bore a 
 considerable resemblance to those of the rude and 
 grotesque drama called Galatian, which, in lowland 
 Scotland, is performed by the Guizards on the 
 evenings of Christmas Day, Hogmany, New Year's 
 Day, and Handsel Monday. 
 See Chambers' s Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1847, 
 p. 299. Will.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 131 
 
 SYDE, a. Long. Used generally in reference to garments. 
 A. S. sid. 
 
 " You wear the horn so syde." 
 
 Proud Lady Margaret (Scott's P. W. iii, 32). 
 
 " The cxiker hangs so side now, furred with a cat's skin." 
 
 Townley Mysteries. 
 
 This word was in use in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 " A side gown of Kendal green." See Perct/s Rel. i. 
 
 Essay, p. liv. Car., Will. 
 SYNE, adv. " It may as well be done sune as syne," 
 that is, "as well now as then," 
 
 T 
 
 ACK, '0. To take. Car. 
 
 TACK EFTER, v. To take after, to resemble. 
 
 TACK, n. The lease of a house, turnpike-gate, &c. Jam., 
 
 Car., Wilb. 
 TACK, n. An unpleasant taste. 
 TACKET, 71. A small nail. 
 
 " Johnny cobbles up his shoe 
 Wi tackets large and lang." 
 Jam. Morison's Poems, p. 47. 
 
 TACKIN, n. Condition, plight. Car. 
 
 TADE (pronounced fyad), n. A toad. Jam. 
 
 TAIL-BAND, n. A crupper. Car. 
 
 TAISTREL, n. An idle, knavish person, an ill-behaved boy. 
 Car. 
 
 TAMMY, n. A sort of woollen cloth 
 
 TAMMY-WEAVER, n. A weaver of tammy cloth. 
 
 TANE (pronounced fyati), n. The one. Jam., Car. 
 
 TANE (pronounced t'yan), p. pa. Taken. Jam., Car. 
 
 TANTRUMS, n. pL Passionate whims. Wilb. 
 
 TARN, n. A pool of shallow water, with rushes growing 
 
 in and about it. 
 
 There was a tarri on the left-hand side of the road
 
 132 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 
 
 from Newsham to Winston Moor, wliicli a few years 
 since was drained and inclosed. Car., Will. 
 TATIE, n. A potato. 
 
 TAUM, n. A fishing-line. Icel. taum. Car. 
 TAVE (pronounced t'yav), v. To tread slowly and M'ith 
 
 difficulty, as over a ploughed field. 
 TAW, n. The marble which is shot by boys from the fore- 
 finger and thumb. Dutch taws were formerly in 
 
 great request. H., Bar. 
 TAYLIER, n. A tailor. Fr. tailleur. Car., II, 
 TEAH, n. A toe. 
 TEE, n. A tie. Car. 
 TEE, V. To tie. Car. 
 
 COW-TEE, n. A cow-tie. 
 TEASTER, n. A flat wooden covering over a bed. 
 TEE-FALL {to-fall), n. A small building attached to the 
 
 wall of a larger, usually at the back part. Jam. v. 
 
 Tofall. 
 TEEM, V. To pour out. 
 
 Serenius refers this word to the Icel. taenia, to empty. 
 
 " Teem out the remainder of the ale into the tankard, 
 
 and fill the glass with small beer." — Swiff s Directions 
 
 to the Butler. Car., For., II., Lane, W. and C, 
 
 Wilb. Will. 
 TELL'D, V. Did tell. 
 TELL'D, 2i.2ia. Told. 
 TELLY-PIE-TIT, n. A schoolboy who tells tales out of 
 
 school. Car. v. Tell-pye. 
 TEMSE, n. A sieve. Dux. tems. Car., H. 
 TEMSE, V. To sift. 
 
 EFTER-TEMSINS, n. pi. The coarse flour or refuse 
 left after the operation of temsing, 
 TENG, n. A sting. Cur. 
 TENG, V. To sting. 
 TENGIKG-ETIIER, n. The large dragon-fly.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 133 
 
 TENGS, n.pl. Tongs, A. S. tang. 
 
 TEN O'CLOCKS : Bread, cheese, and ale given in hay- 
 time to mowers at 10 a.m. In like manner, four 
 
 d" clocks for 4 p.m. 
 TEW, V. (1) To fatigue. (2) To ruffle, to disturb. 
 
 " My gown's sadly tew^d" H., Will. 
 THACK, n. Thatch. A. S. thac. Jam., Car., For., H., 
 
 JF.andC., TFilb. 
 THAIRM, n. Sheep gut or other intestines twisted into a 
 
 cord. A. S. thearm. Ja?n. 
 THARF-CAKE, n. A cake of simple meal and water. 
 
 A. S. theorf. 
 
 2%a?y-bread is a term used frequently by Wicliffe, 
 expressive of unleavened bread. 
 
 "Paske and the feeste of therf looves was after twey 
 dayes." — Mark, xiv. See also Matt, xxvi ; Luke, 
 xxii. Bou. V. Bannocks. H. 
 THEE, n. Thigh. A. S. theoh. Sk. 
 THEEK, V. To thatch. A. S. theccan. Car. 
 
 " We'll theek our nest when it grows bare." 
 
 The Ttva Corbies (Scott's P. W, ii, 360). 
 
 THEEKER, ti. Thatcher. Car., W. and C. 
 THICK, a. On very friendly terms. "As thick as inkle 
 weavers." 
 
 " Nae twa were ever seen mair thick." 
 
 Davidson. 
 
 See Chal. Shaks. 'in, 477, vii, 536, for definition of 
 inkle. 
 
 Jain., Car., For., W. and C. 
 THIMMEL, ». Thimble. W.andC. 
 THIMMEL-PIE, n. A fillip with a thimble. Car. 
 THINK ON, V. To remember. With a pronoun after it, 
 
 to remind, as, " think me o«." Car., JVilb.
 
 134 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 THIR,^r. These. Jam., Car. 
 
 THIVLE, ti. A short, peeled, willow stick, used to stir 
 up cream. There is a phrase, — " A queer stick to 
 make a thivle on." Car., Will. r>^^^ . 
 
 THOOM, n. Thumb. 
 
 THOU'S: Thou art. " TAow'* a good lad." 
 
 THOU'S : Thou Shalt. " Thous gan wi' me." 
 
 THOW, 71. Thaw. Used by Burns. See Jam. 
 
 THOW, V. To thaw. Jam. 
 
 THRANG, n. A throng, a bustle. A. S. thrang. Jam. 
 
 THRANG, a. Busily engaged. There is a phrase, " As 
 thrang as Throp's wife 'at hanged hersell i' t' dish- 
 clout." See somewhat different versions in Car., 
 Lane. Dialect, p. 14 (Ed. Lond. 1833). 
 
 THRAST,! T^., , 
 
 THROST f ^' thrust. Car. 
 
 THRAW, n. (1) A throw. (2) A lathe. Car. 
 THRAW, V. (1) To throw. Jam. (2) To turn with a 
 
 lathe. Car. 
 THREAP, V. To argue in a pertinacious manner. A. S. 
 
 threapian. 
 
 " It's not for a man with a woman to threape." 
 
 Take thy Old Cloak about Thee (Per. Rel. 1. 208). 
 
 Car., H., W. and C, Will. 
 TH REAVE, n. A bundle of straw equal to twelve battens. 
 
 A. S. threaf. Her. v. Thrave. 
 THREDE, n. Thread. Car., H. 
 THREDE, V. To thread. 
 
 THREE-THRUMS, a. The purring noise made by a cat. 
 
 Car. 
 THRESH, V. To thrash. Teut. threschen. Car. 
 THRIFT-BOX, n. A box with a small opening for money. 
 THRISSLE, n. Thistle. Jam.
 
 TEBSDALE GLOSSARY. 135 
 
 THROPPLE, n. The windpipe. 
 
 " Some musical instrument, if it were but a bird-call, 
 or a guse-thropple." — -Ritsons Letters, i, p. 23. 
 Jam. V. Thropill. W. and C. 
 THROSSEN,^ 
 
 THRUSSENj^-^'^' ^^^"^'- ^«''- 
 THROSSLE, 71. The thrush. //., JT. and C. 
 THRUF-STANE, n. A stone which passes quite through a 
 
 wall. Car. 
 THRUMS, n. pi. The warp ends of a weaver's web. 
 
 " Fower and twenty goode arrows trussed in a fhrumme." 
 
 Ritson's Ancient Songs, p. 50. 
 
 " Come, sisters, come, 
 Cut thread and thrum." 
 
 Shaks. Mid. Night's Dream, v, 1. 
 
 See Malone's Shakspeare. 
 
 " He's no a gude weaver that leaves lang thrums." — 
 
 Scotch Prov. 
 THUD, n. A dull and hollow sound, caused by a blow or 
 
 fall. Jam. 
 THUMMEL-TEAH, n. The large toe. 
 THUMPER, «.-) ^ . 
 THUMPING, a. / ^^"^'^°S§'^^*^^^^- 
 THUNNER, n. Thunder. Car. 
 THUNNER-PASH, n. A thunder shower. Car., H. 
 THUNNER STANE, n. A quartz pebble, ignorantly 
 
 supposed to have fallen from the sky. Car. 
 TI, prep. To. 
 
 TICE, V. To entice. Wilb. 
 TICK-TACK, 71. The sound made by a watch. 
 TIDY, a. Neat, applied either to the person or a place. 
 
 Bar., II. 
 TIED, a. Obliged, certain. "He's <?>(/ to gan." "He's 
 tied to be rich."
 
 136 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 TIFT, n. A slight quarrel. Car., H. 
 
 TIGGY, TIGGY, TOUCHWOOD, I TOUCH NO WOOD. • ' 
 
 These words are repeated in a pastime among boys, 
 one of whom pursues the rest, and endeavours to 
 catch him when he is not touching wood. 
 TIKE, n. A mischievous youth. Shaks. Hen. V, ii, 1. fll 
 
 TIL, \prep. "Til nm," "Tin urn," to him. Both forms V 
 
 TIN, I used when the following" word begins with a " 
 
 vowel. 
 TIMMER, n. (1) Timber. (2) Standing trees, as in the 
 
 following lines : 
 
 " Fu' loud and shrill the frosty wind 
 Blaws thro' the leafless timmer, sir." 
 
 Burns, iv, 58. 
 TINKLER, n. A tinker. Car. 
 
 TIP-CAT, 1 n. A pastime played in a somewhat 
 
 TIPPY-CAT-RUN, / similar way to cricket, generally 
 between two boys. 
 
 This game differs from the description in Strutfs 
 Sp. and Past. p. 101. See Brandos Pop. Ant. ii. 
 243, where the description tallies with the pastime 
 as now played, as to the number. 
 TIP-TAP-TOE, n. A childish game on a slate. 
 TIT, n. A horse. 
 
 " Nor drawing tit, but skorn'd who there, 
 Nor asse that will his burthen beare." 
 
 Friar Bakons Prophesie (Percy Soc. Pub.) 
 Car., Wilb. 
 
 TITE, adv. Soon. Car. 
 
 TOAD-STOOL, 7i. A sort of fungus. 
 
 TOAD UNDER A HARROW: "To live like a toad under 
 a harrow," is an expression denoting extreme personal 
 wretchedness, especially that which originates in do- 
 mestic strife. Car. 
 
 TOGITHER, adv. Together. Car.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 137 
 
 TOM-CAT, n. A male cat. Car. 
 
 TOMMY-LOACH, n. The loach. 
 
 TOM-TIT, n. A common name of the titmouse. JVilb. 
 
 TOM-TROT, n. A sweetmeat, the ingredients being treacle, 
 sugar, ginger, &c. "A joining o' tom-trot is a sub- 
 scription for making it. 
 
 TOON, n. Town. 
 
 TOPPIN, n. A crest, as of a bird. The hair on the fore- 
 head when worn standing up was so called. Car. 
 
 TOUGHT, ]). "pa. Taught. Tout occurs in S])dne]fs 
 Arcadia. 
 
 TRAIL, V. To drag along. Car. 
 
 TRAMPER I '^' ^ '^^^"'^^^^^*- ^^'^•' ^^^•' ^^*^^- 
 TREDDLES, n. pi. Parts of a weaver's loom, trodden 
 
 alternately by the feet. 
 TRESSEL, n. A wooden prop. Car. 
 TRIG, V. To dress smartly. 
 TRIG, a. 
 TRIGGED OUT, p. pa. 
 
 "Oh, dear father, gin I benot^ny.^" — North Country 
 Chorister, 1802. 
 TRIG, V. To fill the belly to excess. Car. 
 TRIMMLE, n. A tremble. 
 TRIMMLE, V. To tremble. W. and C. 
 TROD, n. A footpath. A. S. trod. Sp., Car., JV. and C. 
 TRONES, n. j^l- A steelyard. 
 
 According to Fleta, " trona" is a beam, and was used 
 
 to weigh wool. "Tronage" is mentioned in Stat. 
 
 West, ii, c. 25. Car. 
 TROOANT, n. Truant. 
 TROU, n. Trough. 
 
 TROUBLE, n. A break or obstruction in a stratum of coal. 
 See Oliver s Rumbles in Northumberland, p. 35. 
 
 > Dressed smartly.
 
 138 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 TROUNCE, V. To beat, to punish. 
 
 "The Lord trounced Sisera and all his chariots." — 
 
 Mathewe's Transl. of the Bible {\b^7), Judg.\, 15. 
 
 " Trounce him, gaol him, and bring hira upon his 
 
 knees." — South, Serm. vi, 52. Used by Butler and 
 
 Dryden. 
 TROUNCIN, n. A beating. W. and C. 
 TRUNK, n. A trump at cards. 
 TRUNNLE (Trundle), v. To bowl, to roll. 
 TUFE, a. Tough. 
 TUFIT, n. A lapwing. 
 TUKE, pret. of Take. Car., W. and C. 
 TUM, V. To separate the fibres of wool from one another 
 
 before carding. Car. 
 TUMMLE, n. A tumble. 
 TUMMLE, V. To tumble. Car. 
 TUNDER, n. Tinder. 
 TUNNLE, n. Funnel. 
 
 TUPE, (Tup), n. A ram. Car., For., H., Her. 
 TUTHE, n. Tooth. W. and C. 
 TWEAH, a. Two. W. and C. 
 TWIBLE, V. To walk unsteadily. 
 TWILL, n. A quill. Car. 
 TWILT, n. A quilt. Car., W. and C. 
 TWINY, a. Fretful, uneasy. Car. 
 TWITCH-BELL, n. An earwig. 
 T'YAM, a. Tame. 
 
 TTNKARD, a. A person in a strange place, with which he 
 ^^ is unacquainted, is said to be unkard. The word 
 
 when applied to a place, means '" lonely." 
 UNKEN'D, a. Strange to any place, or any kind of work. 
 UNLIKLY, a. Unlikely. Car. 
 UNMAKLY, a. Unshapely. Will.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. ' 139 
 
 UNPOSSABLE, a. Impossible. Car. 
 
 UNREGALAR, a. Irregular. Car. 
 
 UNSENSIBLE, a. Insensible. Car. 
 
 UPHAUD, V. To uphold. Lane, JVilb. 
 
 UPTACK, n. Anything lost, being found and restored, a 
 
 reward is offered for the uptack. Car. (2). 
 URCHIN, n. (1) A hedgehog. (2) A name of slight 
 
 anger to a child. Car., H., Her., Lane, W. and C. 
 URLED, a. Pinched with cold. See Hurl in Car. 
 USE, "1 n. Interest. Out at use, i. e. out at 
 
 USE-MONEY, J interest. 
 
 " So he will let me have 
 The other half in use." 
 
 Shaks. Merchant of Venice, iv, 1. 
 
 UWER-LEATHER, n. Over-leather, as of a shoe. 
 
 ^VTAGE, n. A journey attended with toil. 
 
 VALLIDOM, n. "Not f vallidom of a fardin," i. e. not 
 the worth of a farthing. Car. 
 
 VARMIN, n. Vermin. Car. 
 
 VARRY, adv. Very. 
 
 VAST, n. (1) A great quantity. (2) A large number. Car. 
 
 VENT, n. A hole or opening. 
 
 VESSEL-CUP, n. Vessel-cups were formerly carried about 
 shortly before Christmas. They consisted of small 
 boxes, containing figures dressed up to represent the 
 advent of the Saviour. Songs of rude and simple 
 rhyme where sung by the persons (generally females) 
 who carried them. 
 The following verses used to be sung : 
 
 " God bless the master of this house, 
 And mistress also, 
 And all the little children 
 That round the table go ;
 
 140 * TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 And all your kith and kindred, 
 
 That dwell both far and near ; 
 I wish you a merry Christmas, 
 
 And a happy new year. " 
 
 " I come not to your house to beg nor to borrow, 
 But I come to your house to drive away all sorrow." 
 
 ip Sp S(t 5(C 
 
 The annexed verse differs slightly from the above : 
 
 " God bless the ruler of this house, 
 With great prosperity. 
 And many a meiTy Christmas 
 
 May he live again to see, 
 Amongst his friends and kindred. 
 
 That live both far and near, 
 And God send us all a happy new year." 
 
 RimbauWs Christmas Carols, p. 27, v. 9. 
 
 The lines following are sung in the old drama, called 
 Galatian, performed by Guizards, in Scotland, at 
 Christmas : 
 
 " Blessed be the master of this house, and the mistress also, 
 And all the little babies that round the table grow ; 
 Their pockets full of money, the bottles full of beer — 
 A merry Christmas, guizards, and a happy new year." 
 
 "It was usual some years ago for the poorer people to 
 go from door to door with a wassail-cup adorned 
 with ribbons, and a gold apple at the top, singing, 
 and begging money for it : the original of which 
 was, that they also might procure lamb's wool to 
 fill it, and regale themselves as well as the rich." 
 See Gent's Mag. vol. 54, pp. 98, 347; Brand's 
 Pop. Ant. vol. i, p. I ; Clarkson's History of Rich- 
 mond, 4to, p. 289. 
 
 VIEWLY, a. Handsome, pleasing to the eye. Car. 
 
 VOLENTINE, n. Valentine.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 141 
 
 \)rrABBLE, V. To move from side to side. Teit. 
 * ^ loabelen. W. and C. 
 
 WABBLY, adv. Unsteadily. 
 
 WAD, n. The blacklead in a pencil. 
 
 WAD, V. aux. Would. Car., W. and C. 
 
 WAD->f'T: Would not. Car. 
 
 WAD-PENCIL, n. A blacklead pencil. 
 
 WAFF, n. The ghost of a person still living, the appear- 
 ance of which portends his death. See Brand's Pop. 
 Ant. iii, 121. 
 
 WAFFING, a. Barking, as a dog. 
 
 WAINROPE, n. The strongest rope used in agriculture, 
 as, for securing corn on the long carts, &c. 
 "Oxen and iiminropes cannot hale them together." — 
 Shaks. Twelfth Night, iii, 2. 
 
 WAKE, a. Weak. 
 
 " Ich am to waik to worcke." 
 
 Piers Plowman. 
 
 " My father was sa %vake of blude and l)ane " 
 
 Percy Reliqiies. 
 Car. 
 WAKELY, adv. Weakly. 
 
 WALKER, n. A fuller. A. S. iveaJcere. 
 
 " She curst the weaver and the walker 
 That clothe that had wrought." 
 
 Boy and the Mantle, 1. 53 (Percy Rel. iii, 42). 
 
 WALLET, n. A schoolboy's satchel. 
 4U.-. WALLOP, V. To beat. Car. (1). 
 
 WALSH, a. A wahh day, a showery day. Walsh, as 
 
 applied to broth, gruel, &c., means insipid, unsavoury. 
 
 Jam., Car. 
 WAME (pronounced iv'yam), n. The belly. A. S. xvamb. 
 
 D. v.. Jam., Car. 
 WAN, V. pret. of win. Car. 
 WAND, V. pret. of wind. 
 
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 142 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 WANKLE, «. Unstable. A. S. wancol. Ger. wankel. 
 
 " But, Thomas, truly I the say, 
 This world is wondir wankilV" 
 
 True Thomas (Jamieson's Pop. Ball, ii, 35). 
 Car., W. and C. 
 
 WANT, V. To spare. " I cannot wa7it it," i. e. I cannot 
 
 spare it. 
 WAP, 71. A stroke or blow. Jam. (2), Car. 
 
 -.TT i T.V.TTtT f w> A small cock of hay. 
 WAPPIN,J •' 
 
 WAPPER, n. Anything large of its kind. 
 
 WAPPING, a. Large in size. 
 
 WARBLE, ti. A small tumour on the back of cattle. Car. 
 
 WARE, V. To spend, either money, time, or labour. 
 
 " Robin Burns in mony a ditty, 
 
 Loudly sings in whiskey's praise ; 
 Sweet his sang ! — the mair's the pity. 
 E'er on it he wared sic lays." 
 
 MacneU's Scotland's Scaith, Part II, v. 26. 
 
 " Wi ten pund Scots on sarkin to ware." 
 
 Scots Song. 
 
 See Burns, ii, p. 17, 1. 6 ; p. 308, last line. Car. 
 WARE-DAY, n. A week day, as distinguished from Sunday. 
 
 W. and C. 
 WARK, n. Work. SJc, Sp., Car. 
 WARK, V. To ache; as, heed-ivar/c, tuthe-wark, heWy-wark. 
 
 A. S. wterc. Car., H., W. and C, Will. 
 WARK-FOLK, 7i. Labourers. Car. 
 
 WARRISH, n. The withers of ahorse. Car. v. Warridge. 
 WARSE, a. Worse. 
 
 WARSEN,"! V. n. To grow worse, to lose condition. Car., 
 WORSEN,/ Her. 
 WATER-BITE, n. Something to eat immediately after 
 
 bathing. 
 WATH, 71. A ford. 
 
 - urC.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSAKY. 143 
 
 WATTELS, n. The loose red flesh that hangs below the 
 cock's bill. 
 
 "The cock's comb and wattels are an ornament be- 
 coming his martial spirit." — More against Atheism. 
 WATTER, n. Water ; also a river. Car. 
 WAX, V. n. To increase in size or stature. A. S. weaxan. 
 Car,, Lane. 
 
 "A lad o' ioax" means one who is clever, expert. 
 See Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, i, 3. Car., H. 
 WAX-END, n. The end of the waxed thread used by 
 
 shoemakers. 
 ■WEAH, a. Sorry. A. S. wa. Sc. wa and wae. 
 
 This word, as an adjective, is used in a similar meaning 
 in the following passages : 
 
 " I wolde be wo, 
 That I presume to her is writin so." 
 
 Ch. Court of Love. 
 
 " I am woe for 't, sir." 
 
 Shaks. Tempest, v. 1. 
 
 " But be ye sure I wolde be wo, 
 If ye shulde chaunce to begyle me so." 
 
 Old Play — The Four Fs (by John Heywood). 
 Car. V. Waa. 
 WEAH-WORTH : Woe betide ye. 
 
 " Wae-worth the loun that made the laws." 
 
 Gilderoy, \. 65 (Per. Rel. i, 338). 
 
 " Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, 
 That costs thy bfe, my gallant grey." 
 
 Scott's Lady of the Lake, Canto 1, ix. 
 
 WEATHER-GALL, n. An imperfect rainbow. 
 
 A word of similar meaning occurs in Shaks. Rape of 
 
 Lucrece, ad fin. 
 
 " These water-galls in her dim element, 
 Fortell new storms to those already spent." 
 
 Steevens says the word icater-gall is current among the 
 
 shepherds on Salisbury Plain. Car., W. and C.
 
 144 TEESDALE GLOSSAUY. 
 
 WEBSTER, n. A weaver. Car. 
 
 WEDDING-PSALM, n. If a bride appears at church 
 within a few Sundays after the wedding, it is cus- 
 tomary for the singers to sing a particular psalm, 
 thence called the iveclding-psahn. At Winston Church 
 the 133d psalm is selected; in some churches the 
 128th. See Monthly Mag. for 1/98, p- 417. 
 
 WEDDING-RIBBON, «. A ribbon given by the bride to 
 be run for. This custom is still continued in some 
 villages. 
 
 WEE, a. Small. " Little" is generally prefixed. 
 
 " He hath but a httle %vee face." 
 
 Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, i, 4. 
 
 " He had a litill we leg." 
 
 Scotfs P. W. i, 268. 
 
 " Oh ! ivee, wee man, but ye be Strang." 
 
 Scots Ballad. 
 
 " Saw ye my tvee thing, saw ye my ain thing ?" 
 
 Scots Song. 
 Car. 
 
 WE EL, a. and adv. Well. 
 
 " They're weel guided that God guides." — Scots Prov. 
 
 Car. 
 WEEL, ?i. A whirlpool. Car. 
 WEENY, a. Small. " Little" is sometimes prefixed. Ger. 
 
 wentff. 
 WEER, n. The dam of a river. Car. 
 WEET, a. Wet. H. 
 WEET, V. To wet, to rain slightly. 
 
 " Logan water's wide and deep, 
 And I am laith to weet ray feet. 
 
 Car., H., Wilb. 
 WEFT, n. The woof of cloth. 
 WELL, V. To weld. See Jam., Car. 
 
 Scots Song.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 145 
 
 WELT, n. The turning down of the upper leather of a 
 
 shoe to which the sole is fastened. Car. 
 WE'SE : We shall. 
 
 " JJ^e'se a' be fu when the corn's i' the mow." 
 
 Scots Song. 
 WESH, n. A wash. H., W. and C. 
 
 WESH, V. To wash. Ch., P. PI. Wesche in D. V. 
 
 WETHER, n. A male sheep after the second shearing. 
 
 WETSHOD, a. Wet in the feet through the shoes. Whet- 
 shod occurs in Piers Plowman. For., Will. 
 
 WHACK, n. A blow. Car. 
 Sometimes used as a verb. 
 
 WHACKIN, a. Stout, lusty. Car. 
 
 WHANG, n. A large piece, as of bread or cheese. 
 
 " Cut frae a new cheese a whang." 
 
 The Gaberlunzie Man, 1. 60 (Per. Rel. ii, 66). 
 
 " Wi' sweet-milk cheese, in monie a whang, 
 An' farls bak'd wi' butter, 
 
 Fu' crump that day." 
 W. and C, Will. Burns, ii, 105. 
 
 WHATSOMIVVER, pr. Whatever. Car., H., Her. 
 WHEAH, 2^r. Who. Car. 
 
 WHEAN, 71. A dissolute female. See Jam. v. Quhetjue. 
 Car., Lane. 
 
 WHEEZE, 1 rr u u • 1 • 
 
 yv. lo breathe with noise. Lane. 
 
 WHELKIN, a. Large. Car. 
 
 WHEMMLE, V. To upset, to turn upside down, as a vessel 
 
 of liquid. '' Whummilled." — Sat. Mag.\o\. x, p. 182. 
 
 See Jam. v. Quhemle, p. 253. Car., W. and C. 
 WHENT, a. Quaint. "A whent lad," i. e. an artful lad. 
 
 See Jam. v. Queint, p. 249. 
 WHET, V. A term applied to the saluting of a female in 
 
 the harvest or hay field. 
 WHETTING, n. A salutation of this kind. 
 WHICK, a. Quick, alive. Car., W. and C, Wilb. 
 
 7
 
 146 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 WHICKENS, n. pi. Weeds in a fallow field. Will. 
 WHICKS, n. pi. Quickset plants. Car. (2). 
 WHICK-HEDGE, 7i. A hedge made of wliicks. 
 WHIDDER (pronounced whither), n. Violence, shaking. 
 
 Car., Wilb. 
 WHIDDER (pronounced ^<?/^^YAe?■), w. «. To shake, to trem- 
 ble. See Jam. v. Quhidder, p, 254. TF. and C, Will. 
 WHIET, a. Quiet. Car. 
 WHIFF, n. A slight breeze, a pufi". 
 WHILE, 71. A space of time, long or short. 
 WHILK, pr. Which. See Jam., p. 255. 
 WHILK, n. A shell of the genus Buccinum. A. S. weolc. 
 WHIN, 71. Furze, gorse ; a plant of the genus TJlex. 
 
 Welsh, chvi/n. 
 
 " Plants that have prickles in their leaf are holly, 
 juniper, whin-hnsh, and thistle." — Bacon. 
 
 H., W. and C, Will. 
 
 WHINGE, V. n. To whine, to cry. 
 
 " At bame to girn, and whinge, and pine." 
 
 Fergusson. 
 Car., W.atidC, Will. 
 
 WHINNEY, V. n. To neigh, Lat. hin7iio. 
 
 "The horse — while he is whinneijing" — More, hn- 
 7nort. of the Soul, i, 1, 13. H. 
 WHINSTONE, n. A very hard kind of stone. 
 WHISHIN, n. Cushion. 
 
 Qiajschinis, in Wicliffe. Quishin and quishen are both 
 found in Chancer. 
 WHISHT, a. Hushed. "Will ye be whisht," i. e. will ye 
 be hushed, or quiet. 
 
 It is used as an interjection in the following passages: 
 " But ivhisht ! it is the knight in masquerade, 
 Tliat comes hid iu a cloud to see his lad." 
 
 Ramsay. 
 
 " Whisht, gude wife ! is this a day to be singing your 
 
 ranting fule sangs in?" — Scott. 
 IL, W. and C.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY, 147 
 
 WHISK, n. Whist, a game at cards. Car. 
 WHISKEY, n. A two-wheeled carriage somewhat resem- 
 bhng the modern cabriolet. It has been disused 
 for several years, 
 WHISSON-DAY, n. Whitsuntide. 
 WHISSON-SUNDAY, n. Whitsunday, Car., H. 
 WHITE, V. To cut a stick or wood with a knife. A, S. 
 
 thwitan. See Jam. v. Quhtjte, p. 25G. Car. (1). 
 WHITE-DOG : " The white-dog bites," is a phrase applied 
 
 to an indolent person, who, if opportunity offers, will 
 
 take a rest during the heat of the day. I have heard 
 
 the term in a hay-field. 
 WHITLEATHER, n. Leather made from horse hides, and 
 
 used for dy king-mittens, &c. 
 
 " Whole bridle and saddle, whitleather and nail." 
 
 Tusser's Husbandry, ch. xvi. 
 
 " He bor'd the nerves through, from the heel to th' ankle, and then knit 
 Both to his chariot with a thong of tvliitleather." 
 
 Chapman's Iliads of Homer, vol. ii,p. 194 (Ed. 1843). 
 
 " Nor do I care much, if her pretty snout 
 
 Meet with her furrow'd chin, and both together 
 
 Hem in her lips, as dry as good whitleather.^' 
 
 Suckling. 
 
 WHITLOW, n. An inflammation at the end of the finger, 
 or the toe, causing the nail in most instances to sepa- 
 rate from the flesh and drop off, a new nail afterwards 
 growing, 
 
 WHY (Quey), n. A heifer, until she has had a calf. Dan. 
 quie. Car., W, and C. 
 
 WH'YANG (Whang), n. The leather tie of a boot or shoe, 
 A, S, thwang. 
 
 WHY-CALF, n. A female calf, W. and C. 
 
 WI, ~ 
 
 WIN, I prep. With, W. and C. 
 
 WIV,J
 
 148 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 WIA, adv. Well, yes, in an affirmative signification ; used 
 
 also emphatically, as why is. Car. 
 WIDE COAT, n. Great coat. Car. 
 WIEND, 11. Wyud, a small court. 
 WIG, n. A kind of cake. Teut. loeyghe. Jam., Her. 
 WIKES, n. 2il. The corners of the mouth. See Jam. v. 
 
 Weik. 
 WILL 0' THE WISP, n. A meteor so called, and by the 
 
 vulgar accounted a supernatural being. 
 
 ' Will-a-wisp misleads night-faring clowns 
 O'er hills and sinking hogs." 
 
 Car., Will. 
 WIN, V. To get in hay or harvest. 
 
 Gay. 
 
 " Yt felle abowght the Lamasse tyde, 
 When husbonds wynn ther haye." 
 
 Battle of Otterburne, 1. 1 (Per. Rel. i, 22). 
 
 WIN, V. To raise, as, " coals from a mine," &c. 
 WINCH, V. n. To wince. 
 
 WIND-EGG, n. An imperfect egg without a shell. Car. 
 WINDER, n. Window. Car. 
 WINDER, V. To winnow. 
 
 WINDERING-MACHINE, n. A winnowing-machine. 
 WINKERS, n. pi. A part of harness bridles. 
 WINNEL-STREAH (Windle-straw), n. Smooth-crested 
 
 grass. Cynosurus cristatus. Linn. A. S. windel- 
 
 streoive. 
 
 " With ten pertane tais, 
 And nyne knokis of windil-strais," 
 
 Scotrs P. W. i, 268. 
 
 " Now piece and piece the sickness wears away ; 
 But she's as dweble as a windle-strae." 
 
 Ross's Helenore, p. 56. 
 B. v., Car. 
 WINNOT : Will not. Car.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 149 
 
 WIN-RAW, n. A row of hay, put in order for sweeping. 
 
 See Jam. 
 WINTER, n. An iron implement, which, when used, is 
 
 attached to the grate of a fire, and upon it is placed 
 
 anything that is to be heated, or cheese to be toasted, 
 
 or potatoes to be roasted, &c. 
 WISE-MAN, ». A wizard. Car., H., Will. Brandos Pop. 
 
 Ant. iii, 34. 
 WISP, n. A small bundle of straw or hay. See Notes in 
 
 Malone's Shaks. xviii, 421. 
 WITHY, n. A young willow. A. S. loithig. 
 
 " The withy is a reasonable large tree, for some have 
 been found ten feet about." — Evelyn, p. 249 (4to 
 Ed. 1812). 
 
 Ak. 
 WIZEN, V. n. To wither, to become dry. A. S. wisnian. 
 
 The verb is not much used. 
 
 Ak., Car., For., H., Her., Will. 
 WIZEN'D, 21. pa. Dried up, decayed. 
 WOHO,"l inter] . A term used to a horse when required to 
 WOY, J stop. See Gent .'s Mag. Ixix, 659. Car. 
 WORK, n. The space in breadth that the mower's scythe 
 
 passes over. 
 WORK, V. n. To ferment, as ale, beer, &c. So used by 
 
 Bacon. Bar. 
 WORSET, n. Worsted, woollen yarn. 
 
 " Her braw uew worsct apron." 
 
 Burns. 
 
 Car. 
 WRANG, a. Wrong. A. S. wrany. Jam., Car., W. and C. 
 WRAUT, n. A wart. Dux. tvrat. 
 WUMMEL, a. A wimble, a carpenter's tool. Car.
 
 150 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 
 
 "^TABBLE, «. able. W.andC. 
 YACKER, n. An acre. Ak. 
 
 ,r . t»t' I' «• One. Car., W. and C. 
 
 YAN, J 
 
 YAL, n. Ale. A. S. eale. Car., TV. and C. 
 YAL-HOUSE, 71. Aleliouse. Car. 
 YALLOW, a. Yellow. TV. and C. 
 YANCE, adv. Once. Car., W. and C. 
 YANS-SELL, pr. One's self. Car. 
 YARK, V. To lasli, to beat. Icel. hreckia. 
 
 " Who having in his hand a whip, 
 
 Her therewith yirks." 
 
 Spen. Faery Queeti. 
 
 " But ere the sport be done, I trow. 
 
 Their skins are gayly yarkit." 
 
 Fergusson. 
 
 See John. v. Yerk. Car. (4). 
 YAT, n. gate. A. S. geat. Ak., Car., Her., W. and C, 
 
 Will. 
 YAT-STOOP, n. A gate-post. 
 YAUD, n. A borse. Car., TV. and C. 
 YAUP, V. n. To shout. 
 YEAR, n. The singular number of this noun is generally 
 
 used for the plural. Car. 
 YEE'S: Ye shall. 
 YELP, V. To bark. 
 YERB, n. Herb. See Farbs in Her. 
 YERD, n. Yard. Car., /F. and C. 
 YERNIN, n. Rennet. Ger. gerinnen. 
 YERTH, n. Earth. Icel. jorfh. Car., For. 
 YETHER, V. To beat or lash severely. 
 YETHER, n. A hazel-stick, used with stakes in making a 
 
 particular kind of fence. Car. v. Ether and Tether. 
 TT^. and C. 
 YEUK, n. Itch. Sometimes used as a verb. Jam.
 
 TEESDALE GLOSSARY. 151 
 
 YIELD, n. Crop, as, " a good yzeW of wheat," 
 
 YISTERDAY, n. Yesterday. 
 
 YOKE, V. To put the horses to the cart, &c. 
 
 YON, «. At a distance, within, and sometimes also out of 
 
 view. 
 
 " Liike at yon fellow." "Ton apples mun be pulled." 
 YOUL, V. To howl, as a dog. 
 
 '* The grey dogs, youling, left their food." 
 
 King Henrie (Scott's P. W. iii, 278). 
 
 YOWE, n. Ewe. A. S. eowu. 
 
 " The thick blawn wreaths o' snaw, or blashy thows 
 May smoor your wethers an' may rot your yowes." 
 
 Ramsay's Gent. Shep. 
 Car., For. 
 
 YULE, n. Christmas. Sw. jul. Ice, j6l. A. S. yeol. 
 See Jam., p. 711. 
 
 YULE-CAKE, n. A cake which is made at Christmas, 
 and served up with cheese and frumety, on the eve 
 before Christmas-day. Brand's Pop. Ant. i, 288. 
 
 YULE-CLOG, n. A log of wood laid on the fire on Christ- 
 mas-eve. See Brand's Pop. Ant. i, 254; Gent.'s Mag. 
 liv, 97. Car. 
 
 YURE, n. Udder. Dut. uijer. Will. 
 
 YUVVIN, n. Oven. 
 
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